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TIL Will.I.Am created the theme song for Samurai Jack

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ANmvx TIL about the Svalbard Seed Vault - a secure backup facility to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds, safeguarding global crop diversity against potential disasters.
6EbxQ TIL Madagascar has a larger population than Australia
5YjYP TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
neDod TIL that the US prison population is large enough to support its own specialized electronics gadget industry. All devices have to be in clear transparent casings.
ep0DJ TIL, The Statistic Often Quoted, that 94% of Car Crashes are Human Error, is Incorrect and Misleading, Leading to the Organization that it Originated from, Seeking to Retract it.