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TIL that if we keep our current population growth of 1.11%, in just 8604 years we would have used up all the particles in the entire observable universe just to make human bodies

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epeBk TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence.
D1Wyv TIL Of the bizarre "Huron King" nuclear test, which involved detonating an underground nuke, exposing a satellite in a special test chamber to radiation. The chamber was then dragged to safety before it fell in the crater
0X5L TIL that the United States tried to buy Greenland in 1946 but Denmark refused to sell it.
6EYJY TIL of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey; the world's oldest spiritual site. At over 12,000 years old it is older than both the Pyramids and Stonehenge and is even older than the invention of agriculture or pottery.
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.