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TIL 15% of searches on Google each day have never been searched before.

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0d0Yj TIL that scientists weren't able to synthesize human growth hormone up until the mid 80s, so the hormone was extracted from the deceased.
oRYyo TIL that there are less than 325,000 centenarians living worldwide.
YyJA TIL The sun will never set on the present-day British Empire, due to the smallest and most isolated of the 14 territories, the Pitcairn Islands, which only has a population of a few dozen people. Until there is an eclipse there, Britain remains the empire on which the sun never sets.
KYLWa TIL that the word "Yenta" doesn't actually refer to a Jewish matchmaker but is instead a Yiddish give name for girls which became associated with matchmaking because of the musical Fiddler on the Roof
5Yv1R TIL in 1886, the Germans sent a mission to Chile to help train and modernise the Chilean army. As a result of the Germans overhaul of their army, the ceremonial uniforms, weapons and marching songs are all German or German based, and military parades look like a step into Germany 150 years ago.