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TIL That estimates suggest that 40% of all humans to have ever existed have not lived beyond their first birthday.

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joEj TIL that US senators sought to ban ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ from theaters for “[making] the Senate look like a bunch of crooks”
7XK7 TIL that there are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.
jNAjj TIL Your voice sounds different from what you hear. This is because one can hear a sound in two different ways. The first is through vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum, the way other people hear your voice. The second way is through vibrations inside your skull, set off by your vocal chords
4XpX TIL- that Brigham Young, the longest serving President of the Mormon church, wrote the Adam-God doctrine, stating the Adam was actually God and that he and Eve were from another planet
LP0d TIL Steven Spielberg beat James Cameron to the film rights to Jurassic Park by “a few hours” and Cameron’s version of the movie would have been “nastier, much nastier”.