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TIL Less than 10% of the world's population is atheist or agnostic.

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WkPZY TIL in Russia, the name "Plyushkin" is applied to people who collect and amass various useless things. The word comes from fictional character Stepan Plyushkin who orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them.
Oa8g TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”
1ZM7 TIL that scientist have produced glow in the dark cats, as a part of AIDS research
Epvw TIL - Brad Pitt was banned from China for his role in the movie “7 Years in Tibet”
dDDYE TIL That according to some Astronomers the best way to view the Earth and the Moon is not as a planet and a satellite but as a binary planet system