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TIL Mongolia has about 4 million horses, 3.4 million people, and south asia+southeast asia have about 2 million horses, 2.5 billion people.

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4kXda TIL Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, admitted to being "prejudice" against women. He wrote to Edmund Wilson: "I dislike Jane Austen, and am prejudiced, in fact against all women writers. They are in another class." However, he changed his mind after reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
y86v TIL John Stockwell estimated over 6 million people had been killed due to CIA covert ops back in 1987.
RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.
9MkG TIL a child molester who appeared in over 200 photographs of abuse used a ‘digital swirl’ effect to hide his identity. He was caught after police reversed the effect.
x6BEw TIL the Pentagon used to route all data wires through one wall so 9/11 could've been so much worse