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TIL Nigeria's population is expected to not only surpass the US' population by the end of 2050, but to also become the third most populous country by the end of the century

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vP4d4 TIL China has won the last 4 International Mathematical Olympiads
b8BN TIL German film director, Werner Herzog, was once shot during a televised interview, but chose not to call the police because it was not a “serious bullet.”
D1L8j TIL - During the Great Depression when millions of Americans were going hungry, the U.S. government bought and destroyed 6.4 million pigs.
b64lp TIL about Poland's "frankowicze," a group of about 500,000 people who took out mortgages in Swiss francs since the 2000s and faced soaring debts after the franc was unpegged in 2015, leading to significant financial struggles and nationwide protests.
v1VAD TIL that during the Northridge Earthquake, 93-year old Diana Peplow got her WWII-era Red Cross nurse uniform and assisted survivors for over a month.