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TIL That there is a website called worldometers which updates various statistics such as births, deaths, economic expenditure and CO2 emissions (as well as much more) in real time.

Read more worldometers.info

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WkwyX TIL Dogs can can sniff out cancer even better than some lab tests. There is a specific dog called Lucy that are able to detect cancer in urine sample correctly more than 95% of the time.
W7Y4L TIL In 2011 the Belly Button Biodiversity project was created to study bacteria in the naval. Researchers found 2,368 different species from just 66 people, half of which were previously unknown. The average person hosted 67 different species, but no single species was common to every person.
nZe7 TIL that, after years of denials, the CIA admitted to gathering records on activist Noam Chomsky during the Vietnam War. It also destroyed those records, in apparent violation of federal law.
Jkm4 TIL there is a super highway between New York and London being proposed that would cross the Bering Strait.
aBrA TIL, there is plan to extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years.