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TIL Frank Zappa came up with a way to distribute music digitally in the 80's

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0dZML TIL that Vietnam population is almost 100 million, making it the 15th most populated country on Earth.
RMb7 TIL that in 1945, Dwight D. Einsenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered innumerable pictures to be taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
xEn1 TIL that WWI was one of the first wars where there were more deaths from actual combat than disease.
N781P TIL A squirrel can survive a fall from practically any height because they reach terminal velocity at a very low elevation and their bodies act like little parachutes.
R7aK8 TIL the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th Century was Democide, the murder of a person by their government, which surpasses war.