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TIL: Only 1,280 breeding humans once roamed Earth, gene study shows

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KOMea TIL during Prohibition, federal agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith disguised themselves as grave-diggers, football players, Russian women, rabbis, judges, and plumbers (among many others). Together, they seized more than 5 million bottles of illicit booze and made 4,932 arrests.
awj49 TIL that youngest siblings are usually the favorite child
obML TIL, there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
BLAW TIL that the number of people who travel in Indian railways every year is 8.3 Billion which is more than the population of the earth
15Xd TIL that a Colombian football player who scored an ‘own goal’ in a 1994 World Cup match against the US was subsequently murdered as the scapegoat for the team’s upset loss – one of the gunmen shouted “goal!” every time he fired a shot