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TIL that 93% of people who ever existed on this planet are now dead ,and about 50% of them were kiled by malaria.

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Yp9bW TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.
MdMm TIL Thomas Jefferson kept a shetland sheep at the White House. It attacked several people, killed a small boy, and was eventually called “this abominable animal”.
OGOB1 TIL that the United Kingdom, the nation that invented the first tanks during WWI, was seriously considering retiring its entire main battle tank fleet as of 2020.
xVNwb TIL For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle. The area is next expected to become green in about 15,000 years, in 17,000 AD.
Loe0 TIL the background sounds on the Original Xbox dashboard are modified versions of Public domain Apollo transmissions.