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TIL that malaria has killed close to half of all humans who have ever lived, predominantly children

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1k0D TIL- There is a Star Wars comic where Han Solo and Chewbacca crash into Earth after using Hyperspace blindly. Native American’s kill Han and his body is discovered by Indiana Jones 126 years later while searching for Bigfoot, which turns out to be Chewbacca.
V1DB TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”
NXpOJ TIL the Philippine Independence Day was originally 4th of July, the date when the United States declared and recognized its independence on 1946 but later moved by the then Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal to June 12
Br0lb TIL about Ed Reeves, a US marine who survived the Korean War despite having shrapnel in his legs, being shot in the head, and getting beaten with rifle butts by the enemy soldiers. Despite all of this, he was able to crawl out onto the frozen Chosin Reservoir, where he was rescued.
wooKo TIL that the first piece of legislation passed by the 1st U.S. Congress was the Tariff of 1789, which levied a 50¢ per ton duty on goods imported by foreign ships. President Washington signed the act and the money was used to pay off the Revolutionary War debt.