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TIL of The Kardashev scale: A 1-4 scale method of ranking planetary civilizations based on how technologically advanced they are. On the scale, humans are currently at mere 0.73

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NGY8 TIL 83% of the US now consumes coffee, a 5% increase from last year
yQrMV TIL that a large part of eastern Washington State is mostly barren and useless for farming because all the soil got carried away by a series of ancient cataclysmic floods.
xNk7 TIL that, when the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo, was found with a self inflicted gunshot wound in his chest, he was pumped full of American blood, allowed to recover, and then later hanged for his war crimes.
p8JyA TIL during 2005 in Glendale, CA a suicidal man parked his car in front of a commuter train. The train derailed and collided with two additional trains resulting in over a 100 casualties. The man survived and was sentenced to life without parole.
kMyW TIL that a magazine called Continuum constantly published articles denouncing the HIV/AIDs as a hoax from 1992 until 2001, before ceasing its publication because all its contributors died from AIDs-defining clinical conditions.