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TIL that the world literacy rate went from 76% to 86% since 1985.

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1aBZV TIL that in WW1 Germany protested America's use of the shotgun, as they believed to cause unnecessary suffering and a violation of the Law of War
16RoO TIL Kitum Cave, Kenya, believed to be the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the deadliest diseases known to man. An expedition was staged by the US military in the 1990s in an attempt to identify the vector species presumably residing in the cave. It is one of the most dangerous places on Earth
VMwmk TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
WAa9 TIL that a chimera is when a fetus absorbs its twin and is born with two sets of DNA.
eVpE TIL a spoonful of matter taken from a neutron star would weigh more that Mt. Everest, or 900 pyramids of Giza. (5,500,000,000 tons)