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TIL That Approximately 107 Billion People Are Believed to Have Lived on Earth

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j6ZeQ TIL that Stonewall Jackson was also the name of the Major General of 84th Division during WW2
oBoyA TIL that Carrie Henn as Newt in James Cameron's Aliens (1986) was chosen out of 500 children. Although she had no previous acting experience, she received a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. It is her only credited acting role as she opted not to pursue an acting career
wk8J TIL a round of golf was not set at 18 holes arbitrarily, but because there are 18 shots in the everyday whiskey bottle. One shot per hole.
7MNr TIL that that Yahoo had the opportunity to purchase Google for five billion dollars in 2002, and now it’s worth nearly seventy-eight times that at three hundred ninety billion.
oBAWK TIL that the can opener was not invented until almost 50 years after the can