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TIL Justin Bieber has been banned from China in order to 'purify' nation

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kQ91 TIL that almost 50% of Niger’s population is 15 years old or younger, and 8% of its population (800,000) lives in slavery.
4X8yb TIL that the percent of of a NCAA college athletes “going pro” (becoming a professional level player) is less than 2% for all sports, except men’s ice hockey (5.6%) and baseball (9.1%)
VMBG0 TIL that apollo 11 took 3 days to get to the moon, yet whilst travelling at 7 miles per SECOND.
D1kpe TIL Helen Keller was a suffragist, pacifist, and radical socialist. She actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921.
VMlZ8 TIL the father of chiropractic treatment claimed he learnt about the treatment from a seance with a ghost and attributed 95% of all diseased to subluxations - i.e., misaligned vertebrae