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TIL: There are more people living in slavery today than at any time in human history.

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16aQP TIL CIA satellites in the 1960s would jettison heat-shielded film canisters with parachutes back to earth, to be retrieved in mid-air by plane
b69Xa TIL The US and UK from the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century considered a country's territorial waters to be three miles out from the land as that was the distance of a cannon shot, i.e. the distance at which a country could defend itself.
7r9Jb Today I Learned that The Simpsons get more viewers on average per episode than Family Guy and American Dad combined.
v1pWD TIL, the word Nintendo can be translated as "leave luck to heaven"
W7vgo TIL the odds of a marriage proposal being rejected were 1.73 times higher if the proposal was public compared to if it was private