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BoaL TIL Nasir ad-Din Tusi, a Persian polymath, developed a theory of evolution by natural selection 600 years before Darwin. He wrote that hereditary variability is the leading force of evolution, and that organisms which can change faster are ‘more variable’, thus giving them an advantage over others
loJ4A TIL that in China, people don’t recognise the name Elvis Presley, and only know him as ‘Maowang’ which translates to ‘The Cat King’
78ZBM TIL that until 1987 many doctors believed infants did not feel pain. Medical procedures, even heart surgeries were performed without anesthesia.
kpA4 TIL: Almost one third of London men are too fat to see their own genitals.
kgDB TIL that children start lying as young as age two, but a child who starts lying at a young age is more cognitively advanced than a child who starts lying art an older age.