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TIL Scooby Doo's full name is Scoobert Doobert Doo II
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TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.
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TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’
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TIL Any word, when repeated multiple times consecutively, loses its meaning and starts sounding weird. This is called semantic satiation. It happens because the brain ceases to recognise it as a word and breaks it down into sounds.
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TIL as of the end of the 2018 climbing season, 295 people have died climbing Everest, while there have been 9,159 successful summit climbs by 5,294 people
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TIL Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of force. In dozens of eyewitness accounts, there is not a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal battle with the Royal Navy. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone.”