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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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rJjw TIL a few reasons why Circuit City went out of business was because of its poor treatment of its best workers and poor customer service.
l7dK TIL That, to prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not stress, a scientist drank a beaker of the bacterium. He both developed stomach ulcers and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
R50d8 TIL that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%
V6m8 TIL that when a French artist is killed during war, the government has a “died for France” designation which extends their post-mortem copyrights by 30 years
W7jEN TIL of Viking Metal - a subgenre of heavy metal originating from 1980s Northern Europe characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.