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TIL Lord Of The Rings is the second “most begun but never finished book” ever.

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gomA TIL Humanity has produced an estimated 108 billion individual people over the past 50,000 years. That means today’s 7 billion people represent about 6.5 percent of everyone who’s ever lived.
oRWnr TIL The sound of running water puts Beavers in the mood to build. If a speaker reproduces sound of running water, a beaver will build a dam over it. Even if it's on concrete with no visible water.
KWXG TIL that a Roman envoy stopped the Seleucid invasion of Egypt by drawing a circle around their king and daring him to literally cross the line.
Rdg6 TIL that Oxford University is at least 400 years older than the Aztec Empire
DQ8OJ TIL: According to Jewish religious law, a man must ask his wife's permission before starting a new job, if his new job "reduces the frequency with which he engages in conjugal relations with his wife"