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TIL There were only 3 billion humans in 1960

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K1W6 TIL Frank Zappa commisioned a quilt of panties that were thrown on stage from his 1980-1981 tour. He did not wash them first.
p8Qg4 TIL that pink Himalayan sea salt is actually mined from mountains in Pakistan from a sea that existed hundreds of millions of years ago
1ayb7 TIL Gene Greytak was a real estate broker who moonlighted as an actor, but he only played and made personal appearances as Pope John Paul II. If you saw the Pope in a movie or on a sitcom before 2005, it was Gene.
D1rMv TIL Arthur Sackler, Purdue Pharma's founder who died before Oxycontin's release, established NYC's first racially integrated blood bank, discovered and advocated for gentler alternatives to electro-shock therapy, was a pioneer in using ultrasound technology, and an early anti-smoking crusader.
wop5Y TIL that over 150 Japanese people contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (yes, THAT one) after being implanted with Lyodura, a brain patch illegally harvested from random cadavers