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TIL 48% of the world’s population aged 15 and older has never consumed alcohol.

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KjW9 TIL Because so many people jumped off the Mapo Bridge in Seoul, Samsung paid to put up signs which would light up and greet people, hoping to deter suicide. Unfortunately, the suicide rate off the Mapo Bridge was six times higher the following year.
lo7wA TIL that over 1983-2000, 96% of US plane crash victims survived.
0dyL TIL that in 1943, a German soldier refused to shoot down an American Soldier, and actually escorted him off of German grounds back to the North Sea.
6EN0Z TIL NASA astronauts renamed the penis sleeve for urinating in space suits from “small, medium, and large” to “extra large, immense, and unbelievable.”
KOBLR TIL In 2005 there were so many tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic that we ran out of names and had to start using the Greek alphabet. The last Hurricane was Epsilon (December), while the last tropical storm was Zeta (Janurary). Countless records were broken during this season.