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TIL 7% of all humans who have ever existed are alive right now

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E1eAV TIL Talking to yourself in the third person - a technique known as illeism - can improve your decision making and emotional stability
Bxpb TIL: Australia committed genocide against the Aboriginal, native people from 1910-1970 in an effort to create a “white Australia.”
4XBOR TIL Brad Pitt tried to buy himself out of a movie, ‘Interview with the Vampire’. Upon hearing about the 40M$ exit clause he was forced to shoot the movie. It went on to launch Kirsten Dunst’s career and received 2 Oscar nominations.
W47o TIL: In 1918, the USS Cyclops disappeared along with 306 crew and passengers. No trace has ever been found and it remains the single largest non-combat loss of life in U.S. Naval history.
epebJ TIL That women could not have their own credit cards regardless of marital status until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in 1974. Before then, a man would have to co-sign for a woman, even if she made more money, so credit cards were only available to men for the first 16 years they existed.