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TIL that in 2022, there were born roughly a million more babies in Nigeria alone, than every single European country combined

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gMBYL TIL Kate Bush has only toured once, the Tour of Life, which ran for six weeks in 1979. The BBC suggested that she may have quit touring due to a fear of flying, or because of the death of a lighting engineer, Bill Duffield, who was killed in an accident during a warmup concert.
4bnR TIL that ramen comes from Japan but is made from Chinese ingredients, causing the Chinese people to think it is a Japanese dish and Japanese people to think it is a Chinese dish.
rN90o TIL the longest traffic jam in history lasted for 12 days. It occurred in China in 2010 on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and stretched for over 62 miles (100km).
glO9 TIL that Irish police had been looking for a ‘Prawo Jazdy’, a reckless driver with over 50 offences, only to learn that 'prawo jazdy’ is Polish for 'driver’s license’
6Ak7 TIL that Dr. Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in the United States, and is over 125 years old