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TIL the USA is the third-most populous country in the world

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8Pga TIL that dolphin squeaks show the same 45 degree pattern as any other written language when the words are graphed out
Oo8M1 TIL that according to one legend, the funeral escort of Genghis Khan killed anyone and anything that crossed their path in order to conceal where he was finally buried. After the tomb was completed, the slaves who built it were massacred, and then the soldiers who killed them were also killed.
P1lBe TIL that the fastest object ever built by humans is NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Built to observe the outer corona of the Sun, the probe set the speed record by traveling at 587,000 km/h (364,660 mph), fast enough to fly from New York to Tokyo in just over a minute.
GQ57 TIL that one of the earliest surviving pornographic films, called El Satario, features three young women bathing in a river having sex with each other, and then the devil appears and one of the women has oral sex with the devil.
yVYMX TIL 50% of humans are infected with Toxoplasma gondii parasite that, among all else, causes victims to feel affection towards cats