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TIL that we have been shaking hands since at least 900 BCE.

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VBBED TIL about "doubling"—a method of multiplication devised by the ancient Egyptians that required only the abilities to multiply and divide by 2 and to add. This method is still in wide use today as implemented by binary multiplier circuits in modern computer processors.
wjE1 TIL an estimated one third of the population will often sneeze when looking at the sun or a bright source of light; this is due to a genetic quirk known as the photic sneeze reflex; a condition described by neurologists as having to do with crossed wires in the brain
QJvAe TIL that birds have a bellybutton.
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