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TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tomiant@piefed.social to c/til@lemmy.ca
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This absolutely blew me away. Is this common knowledge? I thought they were wayyy more densely populated. 20% of those are Arabs, by the way, so the Jewish population is less than 8 million. O_O

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[-] darklamer@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

It blows my mind that you didn't know this already. This most certainly is common knowledge.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing it's Today I Learned and not Today You Learned.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Most of us have to learn things and are not all knowing beings

[-] teft@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

One of the chosen 10 000 000.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well, TIL!

[-] darklamer@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's always good!

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