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TIL It is estimated that 300,000 children were abducted by the Franco regime in Spain

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OJK6 TIL in 1918, during WW1, there was a flu pandemic that killed 50 to 100 million people, all across the world. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States.
OGL9R TIL there's a bacterium visible to the naked eye called Thiomargarita magnifica, reaching up to 2 cm long
rN6Z0 TIL Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”
kRMW TIL That a honeybee has the same amount of hairs as a squirrel: 3 million. Whereas the human head, as a comparison, has just 100,000 hairs.
VMQak TIL China has some of the lowest percentages of voluntary organ donors but some of the shortest waiting times for organs because they harvest organs from political prisoners, the marginalized, and executed prisoners.