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TIL Mao Zedong killed more people in his rein over China than Hitler and Stalin combined.

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rbjW TIL a British Columbia company backed by the Gates Foundation is sucking CO2 directly from the atmosphere and converting it to usable transportation fuel. The plant removes one ton of carbon dioxide a day, the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road annually.
R5VZ4 TIL During the American War of Independence, more Americans died as prisoners of war on British prison ships than all of the Revolutionary War engagements combined.
ANppa TIL only three single-letter .com domain names were registered before Internet pioneer Jon Postel registered the other 23 letters of the alphabet. IANA now holds these in reserve to prevent single entities from controlling a letter of the alphabet.
0Y6M TIL museums have more than a half million Native American skeletons in their collections
VMnXk TIL: Slot machines make more money in the United States than baseball, movies, and theme parks combined.