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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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jNYYX TIL according to an Ignoble Prize-winning study, it is possible to discern grandiose narcissism in an individual by looking at their eyebrows.
R7yL9 TIL that author Jack Kerouac was briefly a construction worker involved in building The Pentagon. According to his biographer, he would bring a pint of "gin or whiskey" to work every day.
N7DgE TIL that a second is called a second because it is the 2nd division of the hour. 1st = minute, 2nd = second.
WkeNL TIL there are 7 days in a week thanks to the Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq. As keen observers of the heavens, the Babylonians adopted 7 days because they observed 7 celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."