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TIL Monoco’s orchestra is bigger than their army

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a84rM TIL that after filing a lawsuit for assault against UFC fighter Conor McGregor in 2022, which left her with a broken arm, a Dublin woman had her car set ablaze outside of her home, and later, had a brick thrown through her window. The woman subsequently dropped her suit against Conor McGregor
JYK44 TIL about the theory of "the wisdom of crowds", where the median will be close, but the mean answer of a crowd of people will be closer to the correct answer.
JRyQ TIL that the Earth’s population has doubled in the last 44 years, from ~3.5B to ~7B.
JY9e8 TIL a man named William "Burro" Smith spent 33 years of his life single handedly digging a 2000ft tunnel through a mountain in the Mojave Desert.
XpKk TIL a Filipino president pardoned a Japanese soldier in 1974 who committed multiple murders and engaged police in numerous shootouts, because the soldier refused to believe that WWII was over.