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TIL that 20% of all wars over the last 200 years account for over 98% of fatalities

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6E0B7 Today I learned the name of SpongeBob's most popular song is "rakehornpipe"
JYgQQ TIL that immediately after he gave up absolute power by signing a constitution, King Frederick VII of Denmark remarked, "that was nice, now I can sleep in in the mornings"
JEyV TIL that Paul McCartney was mugged at knifepoint in Lagos, Nigeria. The thieves made off with all the demo tapes for the album Band on the Run, that he was down there to make. McCartney had to re-create the demos entirely from memory before the album could be made.
wLXMo TIL Medical students in 18th-century Scotland could pay their tuition fees in corpses.
yQblX TIL NBA Player Jusuf Nurkic was discovered when a sports agent read a newspaper article about his 7ft/400lb father. The article stated that "Bosnian policeman, Hariz Nurkic has beaten 14 people in a fight." The sports agent found the father asked him if he had a son. Jusuf was only 14yrs old.