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TIL 1 In 200 People On Earth Live In Tokyo ( 43 Million Tokyo Metro ÷ 8 Billion World Pop)

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p87VN TIL that a 2016 study found that acetaminophen — the main ingredient in Tylenol and about 600 other medicines — not only dulls your pain, it also dulls your ability to empathize.
nWJZ9 TIL that Pope Paul II supposedly died from indigestion caused by eating melon in excess, or by being sodomised by a page boy
7mY7 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell facebook for $75 million in 2005.
KOrG TIL the crowd at the first guillotine execution is reported to have yelled “Bring back our wooden gallows”, because a guillotine was insufficiently entertaining.
XrZR TIL During his time as West Ham manager, Harry Redknapp once challenged a heckling supporter to go see if he could play better than the player he was insulting. The fan went on to score in the match.