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TIL the world's population is expected to hit 9.7 billion in 2050, meaning an increase of 2 billion people in the next 30 years.

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XEwjk TIL President Harry S. Truman was not given a middle name, only the initial S. The S honors his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. There is controversy over whether or not the period after the S should be included, although Truman's own letters suggest he regularly used a period.
WkBL TIL a sure-fire hiccup cure. Orgasms
W7v49 TIL that there is such a thing as professional whistling and even a World Whistling Championship!
R7bE6 TIL in England and Wales, deaths caused by willingly taking "unreasonable" risks aren't called accidents, they're called "misadventures."
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.