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TIL 3.6 billion people have watched some part of the live broadcast of the 2016 Olympics. That is almost half of the world's population.

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BajW TIL Elvis Presley on finding out about his wife’s affair, forcefully had sex with her and said “This is how a real man makes love to his woman”
BkrD TIL in 1975 90% of Icelandic women refused to work, cook and look after children for a day to demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society and to protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices
VMbjZ TIL Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.
695nl TIL Cai Lun, the inventor of paper, was a eunuch
wYXo TIL a flower called Amborella trichopoda is the oldest Flowering Plant of Earth. They are about 130 Million Years Old! It is the closest we have got to a living ancestral flowering plant.