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TIL: The suspect behind the first major global virus pandemic was not hired by Microsoft, but in fact now runs a cellphone repair shop in Manila, Philippines

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E1ERP TIL although the brain represent only 3% of our body weight, it consumes up to 20% of the body's energy (calories). These 20% consumption is only for the regular activity and to keep things in order not for studying or thinking too hard.
d86vB TIL Abraham Lincoln faces a different direction on the penny because the penny is an adaptation of a plaque by Victor David Brenner. The illustration was placed on the penny as a result of President Theodore Roosevelt's love for Brenner's work.
eYpb TIL when Mao Zedong visited Soviet in 1949 Stalin had special toilets installed in order to secretly collect and analyze Mao’s excrement
KYEAw TIL that Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson.
PYZGG TIL that the Huanghuagang Martyr Memorial in China has a replica of the US Statute of Liberty on top. It replaced a previous Statue of Liberty that held a rifle, symbolizing Mao's quote that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”