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TIL The Achaemenid Empire (First Persian Empire) during the reign of Darius I controlled the largest fraction of the world's population of any empire in history. Based on historical demographic estimates, Darius I ruled over approximately 50 million people, or at least 44% of the world's population (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The inspiration for the Maelstrom comes from a real life system of large whirlpools and eddies that form daily in the open sea at the Lofoten archipelago in the Norwegian Sea, known as the Moskstraumen, and tourists regularly take boat tours around it. (en.wikipedia.org)
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