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TIL that approximately 100.8 Billion people have died on earth…

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d8b6r TIL the Stephen King book, The Tommyknockers, was loosely based on a creature from the folklore of Cornish miners. To some, knockers were malevolent spirits who knocked on supports to cause a cave-in. To others, the knocking a way of warning the miners that a collapse was imminent.
16Bd TIL False Memory Syndrome is believed to have been abused by multiple therapists in order to convince patients that they have been raped, abused, or were once involved in satanic cults.
XJ9R TIL - During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space—and they’ve made maps
N7yMP TIL about Huey Long, an assassinated senator who advocated for a 30 hour work week and many other progressive policies.
AN74B TIL that the UK has an invasive population of wallabies in the wild.