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Today I Learned that a man thinks he traveled to another dimension where The Beatles never broke up. Here’s the story and the supposed songs he brought back.

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J1p5V TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.
dDndj TIL the entire 1939 World Series was shorter than the third game of the 2018 World Series
VPMG TIL that the brightest supernova we have ever witnessed had a kill radius of 500-1000 light years, meaning it would have sterilized millions of habitable planets.
oVx7 TIL that North Korea formally adopted EMV (chip) debit and credit cards in late 2012, leaving the US the sole remaining holdout country that still hasn’t officially adopted a transition timeline for it.
x6nK5 TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity