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TIL Japan has millions of abandoned homes called “akiya” due to a declining population

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wNoP TIL of Harald Hadrada, a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then went back to Russia to marry a princess, and arrived back in Norway as a king, and finally invaded England with his army.
79pp TIL that no country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800.
woM7Y TIL You should avoid codeine cough meds if your gall bladder has already been removed. No one told me, found out the ouch way.
690mX TIL that green/blue screens were actually developed in the 1930s
9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.