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TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”

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OGoEY TIL since our evolution into modern Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago, there has been about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth, while you're one of 7.9 billion that exist today.
kdjW TIL that the two spellings of blond(e) are actually gender variants, and that it is one of the few English adjectives to retain a masculine and feminine form.
X15X TIL that Amazon removed text-to-speech features for the vision impaired from later Kindle models, for fear that it would cut into profits from audiobooks
dDXv8 TIL the creator of Shaft was white
Y798x TIL about tsukumogami, objects that have acquired a spirit. In Japanese folklore it is believe that when objects reach their 100th birthday they become alive and self-aware.