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TIL 90% of the Earth's population live in the Northern Hemisphere

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vQJR TIL A passenger on a plane was sucked through a window after one of the engines exploded, damaging the aircraft. His remains were discovered 2 years later by a crew building a radio telescope in the desert.
4nYX TIL that Italy has more active Aircraft Carriers than any other country except the US. It has two.
16lRr TIL of the CrunchPad, a failed tablet Linux computer that was a collab project of Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and a Singapore company called Fusion Garage, only to be mired in conflicts that caused Mike to leave the project and it was renamed the JooJoo.
E1gZp TIL that Keurig believes that Canadian K-Cups will be recyclable by 2018 and all K-Cups will be 100% recyclable by the year 2020
eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"