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TIL that the growth of the world population in 2021 is the lowest we've yet to record, growing half as fast as 50 years ago and continuing a trend of declining.

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GAk71 TIL that Clint Eastwood - at the height of his "silent and violent gunslinger" fame - starred in a big-budget western musical called Paint Your Wagon. At nearly 3 hours long, the film was not well reviewed. Eastwood's song "I Talk to the Trees" was singled out for derision.
enGJ TIL that during the Egypt protest of 2011, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks were used to pin point snipers and warn others of their locations.
nVnB TIL When a journalist innocently asked Pope John XXIII, “Your Holiness, how many people work in the Vatican?” He replied, “About half of them.”
VBAoD TIL about Leon Trotsky’s grandson who lived to survive Stalin regimes assassination attempts and ran a museum dedicated to his grandfather in Mexico
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