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TIL Top 10 populated countries of the world [OC]

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XEbrR TIL Shigeru Miyamoto got the inspiration to create Starfox when walking through the gates at Fushimi Inari shrine. He thought it would be great if they could fly through the gates. The word Inari means fox and Starfox was born.
neapr TIL that Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) is a member of the Baha'i faith and has campaigned the Iranian government to allow Baha'i access to higher education
j6EDN TIL that because Caffeine doesn't activate the brain's reward system, scientists don't classify it as an addiction
dDyVj TIL about Project Excalibur, a sub-program within the US's Strategic Defense Initiative that intended to provide defense against ballistic missiles in the most abysmal way imaginable: Anti-ICBM Nuke Blast X-Ray Laser Beams
0ajR TIL that women using birth control pills blinked 32% more often than those not using the contraception.