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TIL British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India in 200 years while stealing atleast 45 trillion dollars of wealth.

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QJD6 TIL Cold War defense computers had ashtrays
OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?
MopK TIL that the guy who played the alien in Alien was a random person Ridley Scott found in a bar and has had no other roles
Yjbd TIL that “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” had its US premiere in Yonkers, NY to an audience of high school students, and a bunch of them got offended and walked out.
9YYOp TIL Tutti Frutti literally means "all fruits"