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TIL before people understood where some migrating birds went away to during the winter, it was sometimes theorized that they would hibernate at the bottom of lakes, or simply fly to the moon.

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nJNY TIL that since the introduction of atomic time, leap seconds became necessary, resulting in a minute with 61 seconds.. There are approximately 8 leap seconds every decade.
Ol64 TIL of Amelia Dyer who is one of the most prolific serial killers in history and is estimated to have killed 200-400 children
wLroE TIL Schlitz was the first beermaker in the world to use a brown bottle. In 1902, Schlitz surpassed Pabst as the best selling American beer.
N7NyE TIL bilinguals have increased executive control, which is responsible for the cognitive control of behavior. This is because bilinguals need to train their brain to suppress one language when speaking the other. As a result, they become better at controlling behavior and impulses in general.
KOO7Q Imagine yourself at a concert hall looking at a symphonic orchestra on stage. Have you ever noticed that high-pitched strings sit left of low-pitched strings? Going from left to right, one usually sees violins, violas, cellos and double basses. That is, one moves from high pitches on the left to low pitches on the right. Why? The orchestra’s arrangement is not a cultural oddity, like driving on the right side of the road. Rather, it is due to our own biological makeup. Higher pitches tend to be better processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, while lower pitches tend to be better processed by a similar region in the right hemisphere. This organisation is thought to have repercussions far beyond music, perhaps even helping to explain why language is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. So the part of my brain that better processes high sounds sits where the higher-pitched instruments sit: on the left. But that’s not the end of the story.