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

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7rax7 TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
djgd TIL: As a joke on the editor of a Star Wars comic a writer created a Jedi named Master Baytes. The joke wasn’t noticed and it made it through to publishing.
1a6LX TIL Einstein theorised a machine to communicate with the future, the Tachyonic antitelephone.
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PMwG TIL that in the 1970s, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis I) hid some of the Argentine military dictatorship’s political prisoners from a human rights watch group. The military routinely executed political prisoners by throwing them from an airplane into a river and sold their orphaned kids.