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TIL Humanity has produced an estimated 108 billion individual people over the past 50,000 years. That means today’s 7 billion people represent about 6.5 percent of everyone who’s ever lived.

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P1Mdn TIL The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold!
970B TIL You Could Fit All the Planets in the Solar System Between the Earth and the Moon.
j6Glj TIL that it used to be illegal to own gold as a private citizen. It was enacted in 1933 under the belief that the hoarding of gold was worsening the Great Depression. It was repealed in 1974.
ADPDg TIL...Alexander the Great likely used linen armor called Linothorax, not bronze. The armor, made of many layers of linen glued together, is stronger, lighter and cooler than bronze and could have contributed to Alexander's success.
pVV4 TIL in the 1950s, hundreds of babies were on loan from orphanages to various U.S. universities. There, students could practice the latest child-rearing theories of the day on a real newborn. After a year or two, the babies would leave their multiple mothers to find homes in adoptive families.