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TIL world demographics are about to drastically shift in the next 80 years, resulting is a reshuffle of the world power order.

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697mW TIL I learned you can have Down syndrome and Tourette and autism at the same time and it happened. You can also have alzheimer and parkinson because both affect different part of the brain. You could then have down syndrome tourette autism alzheimer and parkinson at the same time, that would be wild
Km0w TIL Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has the most visual effects for any film, ever
0wK7y TIL: Rome was basically a ghost town during the Middle Ages. After the fall of the West-Roman empire, the population of Rome dropped from 1MILLION in 330AD to just 20k in 650AD. The population remained roughly the same till ca.1600AD.
pmrO TIL that KY jelly has been one of most important ingredient in Alien based movies to simulate effect of alien saliva in movies like Predator and Aliens
69vy8 TIL: In 2020, a betta fish was able to victoriously complete Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire on live stream with a control system mapped to his tank. Over 4 months, he completed the game by defeating the final champion and even discovered a game bug along the way.