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TIL in Qatar, there are 3.39 men for every woman, making it the country with the most men per woman in the world (excluding the Vatican, which only has men as inhabitants).

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rdww TIL James Franco got a “D” in his acting class while he was filming 127 Hours, the film he was nominated for an Oscar for. It has been claimed either his acting professor was jealous, or that he had too many absent days to complete the course.
rNlg1 TIL that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word published in Oxford Dictionaries, which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust".
d8gXK TIL Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not necessarily invent the guillotin.
nexp9 TIL: Fertilizer-infused water from Florida's 450,000 acre sugar cane industry near Lake Okeechobee causes coastal algae blooms that kill fish and oysters.
RnDQ TIL A star called Betelgeuse will supernova “soon” and becomes Earths second sun for 2 weeks