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TIL Malaria is thought to be responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived.

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ywr8 TIL on March 10, 1945, the U.S. carpet bombed Tokyo (specifically the area with homes made of wood and paper) with napalm, killing 105,400 people - putting it somewhere between the death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
VBkWp Today I learned that the "Marquee Moon" cover photo is an early color photocopy.
DQkRJ TIL that Daniel Petrić from Wellington, Ohio, shot both of his parents on October 20, 2007, at the age of 16 after they confiscated his copy of Halo 3. His mother died, but his father survived a critical injury. Daniel is currently incarcerated for life with the possibility of parole.
kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.
ddB9 TIL that America isn’t the only country to say “soccer” instead of “football”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and several countries in Southern Africa also do so.