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TIL: White people are only 6.5% of the world’s population

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dDrGd TIL of the Miasma Theory; the belief that the nighttime air was poisonous and carried deadly diseases.
QJmxE TIL the US made Schoolhouse Rock-like cartoons called The Metric Marvels in 1978 to prepare the country to switch to the metric system
LkArP TIL that in 1995, Theo Müller - head of yoghurt company Müller - was kidnapped and held at gunpoint. Müller threw himself out of the car and promptly returned to work that afternoon.
b7x7 TIL that during the filming of the Bond film, “Never Say Never Again,” Sean Connery angered his martial arts instructor so much that he broke Connery’s wrist. The instructor was Steven Seagal.
R7Dvl TIL the black paint band around a windshield is actually there to keep the sun from degrading the windshield adhesive