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TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead
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TIL a babirusa's tusks grow upwards through the skin, curve back, and can get so long they penetrate the babirusa's own skull, killing it.
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TIL the number of stars on the EU flag don't actually represent anything. They picked 12 stars because it was the least politically offensive number. When it was suggested each member have a star, West Germany protested because of a conflict with recognizing Saarland (a recognized EU member).
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TIL that the steady increase in sales and popularity of bacon in the United States since 2011 has been referred to as "Bacon Mania" with 65% of Americans supporting making bacon their "national food"
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TIL astronaut Gordon Cooper compiled a secret map containing the locations of 'hundreds' of shipwrecks which he uncovered from space whilst searching for magnetic anomalies during the Mercury 9 Faith 7 expedition
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TIL the original job of the Senate Sergeant at Arms was not to protect the senators, but rather to make sure that the senators could not leave the chamber while business was being conducted.