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TIL Genetic study points to Indigenous Australians as the oldest continuous society on Earth

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XEAYP TIL that a study from 2011-2015 of 160,000 adults from 31 countries concluded that teens who had lower levels of secondary education but who came from homes filled with books became as literate, numerate and technologically apt in adulthood as university graduates who grew up with only a few books.
oR79K TIL the first non-stop around-the-world hot air balloon flight occurred in 1999 and lasted 19 days, 21 hours.
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
awRrN TIL Almost 500 years ago, an African man Yasuke arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior and the only black person to achieve this status.
PgpL TIL Stephen King thought Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining “was not a good adaptation of his novel and is the only adaptation of his novels that he could ‘remember hating’.