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TIL that the number of users on Instagram is now larger than Twitter’s

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8mKP TIL a fire burned down the warehouse of the animation company behind the Wallace and Gromit films, destroying “the entire history” of the animation series.
9wDrM TIL jet lag was first mentioned by Wiley Post writing about his 1931 world record flight around the earth in eight days.
6EayY TIL that historically, polio was not widely fatal. 72% of all infections were asymptomatic; 24% resulted in mild illness; 1-5% resulted in more serious but short-term symptoms. But polio was still feared, due to the <1% of cases that led to permanent paralysis and death in a further 5-30% of them.
xoA7 TIL that in 1946, armed citizens in a Tennessee county fought a gun battle with corrupt local authorities to ensure a fair election AND they made a movie about it
lYMa TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India