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

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W9y4 TIL In 1966 a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river (Germany) as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.
6W88 TIL that an American former prisoner of war spotted a brutal Japanese official from the POW camp shopping at Sears in Los Angeles in 1946. The official, a US citizen, was subsequently the last person convicted of treason in the US to date.
b6vEE TIL that MLK had a 75% disapproval rating when he died, largely due to White disapproval over his views on fixing economic injustice
ADe5d TIL that legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick thought the 1988 film The Vanishing (or Spoorloos in its original Dutch titling) was the most terrifying film he had seen – even more frightening than his own The Shining. After seeing it, he called the film's director to discuss editing techniques.
LQDLm TIL about the "Year Without a Summer". In 1816 a volcanic eruption in Indonesia led to unusual weather worldwide, including snowfall in June. This caused crop failures and also led to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein", which she wrote while stuck indoors due to incessant rainfall.