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TIL that only 30-50% of people have an “inner monologue”

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X5wk TIL the 181 year old corpse of philosopher Jeremy Bentham attended a board meeting at the college he founded and was recorded as “present but not voting”
nBR9 TIL ancient Egypt was formed from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3000 BC, and the pharaohs wore a double-crown, with one half, the White Crown, representing Upper Egypt, and the other half, the Red Crown, representing Lower Egypt.
47Ea TIL one of the countermeasures against war elephants was to douse some pigs with oil or resin, set them alight, and drive them towards the enemy’s elephants. The elephants would bolt in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of soldiers by trampling them to death.
4MN5 TIL that you can tell identical twin babies apart from their navels, since navel is a scar and thus they’re different.
p8N5Q TIL that it is believed in Saint Patrick's lifetime he converted over 100,000 people to Christianity and founded more than 300 churches.