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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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R7jO4 TIL that Mark Fisher, who designed the stage for Pink Floyd’s original THE WALL concert also went on to design stages for U2, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Madonna, and Metallica.
N7bDM TIL that Mosquitos are the only type of creature to kill more humans than homo sapiens.
KOVYJ TIL of Oxdown, a fictitious village trainee journalists would write about in exams. In 2006 it was decided the exams would use real places instead, and so Oxdown was destroyed in a series of deadly explosions. Trainees had to report on the explosions.
OoDe7 TIL that based on geological definitions of a continent, the Earth actually has a lost eighth continent, known as Zealandia. Most of this continent is submerged beneath the sea, while a tiny sliver, including New Zealand, is above the water.
pYelb Today I learned safer ways to use crack cocaine.