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TIL the original lyrics to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ were about crib death

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Z8kmG TIL that Bangladesh and the U.S. state of Illinois are approximately the same size in area (57,000 sq miles or 149,000 km2) yet Bangladesh has a population of 162,000,000 people, and Illinois has 12,000,000.
YpXEx TIL: John Williams lost the 1977 Original Score Oscar for Close Encounters to himself, for Star Wars
MYlW TIL For over three years a poor, illiterate Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acuña de Chaupe withstood violent eviction attempts, beatings and a legal battle to allow Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation to turn her land into an open-pit gold mine.
vPVXD TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Australia were shifted 1.8 m to account for continental drift since the last update in 1994. Moving north 7 cm a year, the Australian plate is one of the fastest-drifting plates in the world
LA5P TIL Saladin, legendary leader of the Muslims during the Third Crusade, was Kurdish