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TIL: By 2100, China’s population will only be within the 700 million range.

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5VMZQ TIL Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann was an accomplished youth swimmer in East Germany and shortlisted for the 1980 summer olympics in Moscow but a head injury ended his career.
wAeJ TIL that most Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead, the children do the cleaning daily as part of the practice rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.
LQRk0 TIL in 2009 a man hid a bomb inside his anus in an attempt to assassinate saudi prince Muhammad bin Nayef, which was described as "a novel technique". Even though he got within hand-shake distance from the prince, his body absorbed most of the blast, so Bin Nayef was only slightly injured
wLPJY TIL that Ford used an astrologer from California to determine which date they would launch the new Ford Taurus. They paid the astrologer $500.
4kMrX TIL: Combination weapons such as a Gun-Axe, Mace-Pistol, or Pistol-Falchion were real and date back hundreds of years. In the 1500s -1800s since guns only fired one shot, they attached them to various weapons such as the German Axe-Pistol. In some cases they attached a gun to a shield.