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TIL That of the 124 actors hired to play the Munchkins in “The Wizard of Oz”, only one is alive today

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9Y7kM TIL scientists believe there are 380 trillion individual virons inside the average human body
p8w98 TIL, in 8 million years the LAGEOS satellite orbit will decay, and it will re-enter Earth's atmosphere, carrying with them a message to any far future descendants of humanity, and a map of the continents as they are expected to appear then.
rOdx TIL that, in 1990, the profits from Pizza Hut restaurants operating in Russia were paid out in bottles of Vodka(Stolichnaya). Pizza Hut would then sell the vodka in the USA. Pizza Hut still holds the exclusive rights to sell Stolichnaya in the USA.
9YoZX TIL about the Diggers, a group of proto-Socialists in 17th Century England who would take over common land and start growing crops for the benefit of the people.
W7vp4 TIL that when Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted, humanity was swept into a period of global erratic temperatures that gave way to the name “The Year without Summer.” This also inspired Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein.”