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TIL More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets. According to a UN report from 2015, 2.5 billion of the world's 7 billion people lack access to a toilet, particularly in areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. While another report put the number of mobile phone users at 6 billion.

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b91Rp TIL there is no Queen of England. The sovereign nation called England came to an end in 1707 following union with Scotland.
9e46 TIL that the roar from the T-Rex in Jurrassic Park was a combination of a baby elephant’s squeal, an alligator’s gurgling, and a tiger’s snarl.
X0opR TIL there was a single fatality at the Nevada test site, where the U.S. detonated over 1,000 nuclear warheads. He died when a crater collapsed.
DjYj TIL that in 1944 a black teenager named George Stinney was accused of murdering two white girls on flimsy evidence, he was tried without legal representation with an all-white jury, and he was executed by electric chair at the age of 14
6Emkw TIL about the Marshall Project, which lists the military equipment your local police department has purchased under the Pentagon's 1033 program.