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TIL that James Bond has slept with 52 women- 10 fewer than George Costanza according to the Seinfeld wiki

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5VoQ9 TIL a Chinese man was thought to have died from a lightning strike until his body exploded at his cremation. A piece of metal was found leading to the discovery that a weather rocket, meant to break up hail, had failed to explode & had fallen through the man's roof acting like a bullet, killing him.
b9Nl4 TIL about Henry Dunant, a man who was so appalled and disgusted by the injury and death during the battle of Solferino, Dunant was compelled to create a neutral voluntary aid society that would tend to the wounded of both sides of every battle. This organisation later became known as the Red Cross.
WkokB TIL that Coca-Cola never patented their "secret formula" because otherwise they would be required to disclose it to the public.
Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.
D1GjP TIL if global fertility rates keep dropping at their current rate, the human population will shrink and humanity may disappear within a few hundred years