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TIL There were only 3 billion humans in 1960

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aWdM TIL that there is a condition nicknamed Stone man syndrome that converts damaged tissue to bone in the body.
97pB TIL that Charles Darwin became interested in how vegetables crossed the oceans. In one experiment, Darwin fed seeds to a bird, shot it, and then placed the carcass in a bath rub to float. After a month, Darwin retrieved the seeds from the floating carcass and planted them. The seeds germinated.
R7Okj TIL that college students scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test (NPI) have been trending steadily upward since the mid to late 80s indicating that people are becoming more narcissistic.
6M9Z TIL that the US House of Representatives has an official mace that can be used to threaten unruly congressmen.
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.