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TIL There is at least 10 times as much crime on TV as there is in the real world.

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D1ooV TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
YmBv TIL In the novel Fight Club, Marla’s line after having sex with Tyler is “I want to have your abortion.” A producer deemed this too offensive, so David Fincher changed it to “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school,” for the film.
YpgMx TIL that 620 million years ago there were only 21.9 hours in a day, and 400 days in a year.
rDP0 TIL that Ancient Greek slingers used pellets inscribed with the word “Catch”
QNdMa TIL that baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own