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TIL, that the British Navy would use Britney Spears song to scare off Somali Pirates

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yVG4v TIL: Niger has more births per year than Japan despite having around 1/5th the population
v5pj TIL that London’s famous “fog” is actually a form of air pollution, which killed 4,000 people during a two-week episode 1952.
GZjG TIL that there have been 31 recorded school shootings in the US so far this year. In comparison, there have been 24 recorded school shootings in the entire continent of Europe’s history.
n0Z9 TIL that there are about 1.6 million Brazilians of Japanese descent.
0wbJj TIL - the queen piece in chess used to only move one square at a time. Later on, this was changed to the movement we know today thanks to the 15th century Queen Isabella of Spain.