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TIL India became the world most populous country from around April/May 2023

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wNA1 TIL Brad Pitt and Matt Damon inadvertently convinced the Italian press that George Clooney is gay and was considering marrying his boyfriend.
awg0o TIL people scatter their beloved's ashes at Disneyland so much, Disney has a specific code for it. When they catch someone doing it on a ride, they close the ride for clean-up, tell everyone in line there are “technical difficulties” and give them all ‘Fast Passes’ for all the other rides.
Z8Dxp TIL about Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Had he remained the sole owner of his creation, he could have easily become the world’s first trillionaire. However, Berners-Lee graciously decided to hand over the Web to the world, no strings attached.
X091j TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.
XKv6 TIL: Inspired by a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, an Oregon man in 2003 grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco plant roots creating real-life “Tomacco.”