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TIL that out of the 107 billion humans who have ever lived, and estimated 40% died before the age of 1

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gMDEb TIL that Lincoln loved cats so much that he once fed them from the table during a formal White House dinner. When his wife told him that it was “shameful in front of their guests,” he replied “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”
N76RP TIL John McTiernan (director of Die Hard and Predator) was sentenced to a year in prison in 2013, because on the set of his 2002 remake of Rollerball, he was illegally wiretapping producer Charles Roven, with whom he frequently clashed on set over the film's production.
W7vgo TIL the odds of a marriage proposal being rejected were 1.73 times higher if the proposal was public compared to if it was private
yGeV TIL there are are a series of tunnels under Portland, OR that were used for kidnapping mariners and women to sell them into slavery and prostitution. The so called “Shanghai Tunnels” were in operation from 1850 to 1941.
ADPlo TIL a pair of Miami DJ's prank called Fidel Castro in 2003. They pretended to be Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to get Castro on the line, and had a brief chat before telling Castro he had been fooled. Castro responded with a brief verbal tirade. The radio station was later fined $4,000