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TIL that 46% of the world’s population depend upon rivers originating in Tibet.

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Z8LvG TIL shortly after its launch the Telstar I communications satellite showed the power of instant communication - a satellite broadcast of the US president claiming that the USA wouldn't devalue the dollar immediately led to the currency strengthening on global markets.
d8RWr TIL: Words in songs are called lyrics because in ancient Greece poems used to be accompanied by a lyre
E1avw TIL European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number.
J1ppB TIL that a computer programmer became a romance author. After developing SuperBASIC for the Sinclair QL computer, Jan Jones began writing fiction; her first book, 'Stage By Stage' (2005), won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award.
rRyBM TIL all except 9 US presidents have been millionaires (2016 rates) and 23 were worth over $10 million