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TIL that China and India's combined population now is greater than that of the entire world in 1950.

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D1XOv TIL, The truth behind an online 'Blue Whale Challenge' which is also known as 'suicide challenge'. The "Blue Whale challenge" was reported to be an online "suicide game" aimed at teenagers which set 50 tasks over 50 days. The challenge was alleged to be linked to numerous deaths around the world.
9YAZM TIL about serial killer Robert Hansen who would kidnap women, then release them in the woods in Alaska and hunt them with a rifle and knife
69MXl TIL That, in Hamelin Germany, there exists a place called Bungelosenstrasse (Street Without Drums). According to legend it is the last place the children from the 'Pied Piper' fairytale were last seen. Since then music and dancing are not allowed on the street.
KOlRE TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin was buried by reporters acting as pallbearers. No one aside from them showed up for the funeral.
0JvA TIL a former FBI agent changed his name to FNU LNU - an acronym for “first name unknown/last name unknown” - to confuse the police and then became the Sherrif of a rogue county