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TIL the Japanese population is expected to decline from 128,000,000 to 87,000,000 from 2012 to 2060 a decrease of 30%

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x6byk TIL that Apollo 8 astronauts Jim Lovell and William Anders are the earliest living recipients of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" award, having been selected by the magazine for its 1968 issue
0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.
XEKjX TIL: In 1665, King Charles II said the southern border of Virginia colony must stretch to the Pacific! In the end it didn't, but over years a resulting survey line (along 36°30′ N.Lat.) became part of 6 state borders (VA, NC, KY, TN, OK, TX). (The line was also a slave/free states divider out West.)
R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.
0wW6N TIL that the title of Pantera's 1992 album "Vulgar Display of Power" was inspired by a line in "The Exorcist". When Father Karras asks Regan why she can't make the straps restraining her disappear if she's supposedly the devil, she replies, "That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras."