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Today I learned that after 10 years together and multiple gold records, when the Beatles broke up in 1970, both Paul & George were only 27 years old.

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nW6jY Today I learned that Action Park had a water slide with an actual loop-the-loop that actually worked (although it was rarely operated for obvious reasons.)
dypd TIL: According to a study the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene, also known as the warrior gene, is found in 0.5% of White males and 4.7% of African-American males
VMNV4 TIL that some accounts of St. Christopher said he descended from a race of dog-people.
a8kxL TIL In 1914 astronomers at the Royal Observatory made a careful study of the transit of Mercury in order to determine whether Mercury had any moons and essentially proved that the planet has no moon
4XXO5 TIL water is served hot in China.