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TIL tone deafness is not the genetic opposite of having perfect pitch

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0wxk5 TIL in 2015, Croatian Sara Grkovic tried to kill her identical twin Dajana. Jealousy was the reason, Sara was in love with a man but after serious thought the guy wanted to settle with Dajana.
xAAk TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
rRmex TIL of the Antikythera mechanism, an Ancient Greek analog computer used to predict astrological events such as orbits and eclipses. Its complexity wouldn't be matched until more than 1500 years later with astronomical clocks.
88V TIL that during its war against Iraq Iran used school-age children to clear the ground for its regular troops by running over minefields
ee4b TIL 37% of Italians have never used the internet (as of 2012)