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TIL North Korea has a larger population than Australia

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AJRx TIL traffic in central London moves at the same speed as horse-drawn carriages a century ago
XLAj TIL our current model of physics only works for 4% of the matter/energy in the universe
v1OKr TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
O8O4 TIL the Pixar Theory states that all Pixar movies exist in the same universe at different times. One character, Boo, pulls all the movies together.