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TIL there are 340,000 to 680,000 slaves in Mauritania

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neNkY TIL that if you lose 75% of your liver, it'll grow back completely in one year.
N7mWJ TIL Charlotte Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Whitton was a Canadian social policy pioneer, leader and commentator, as well as a journalist and writer.
AX9d TIL Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion, China totally believes it.
Z8LgQ TIL the Yongle Dadian was the biggest paper encyclopedia ever, comprising 22,937 manuscript rolls, or chapters, in 11,095 volumes (only 800 chapters in 400 volumes survived), on subjects such as agriculture, literature, medicine and religion
BOxW TIL of UCSC grad student Jim Kent who wrote a program to allow the Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the genome. The research was largely motivated by concerns that Celera Genomics, working on a parallel project, would patent the data. Kent’s results were released first by 3 days.