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TIL Americans greatly overestimate the population share of gay, Hispanic and African American people

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69dDm TIL about The Black Taj Mahal (Kala Taj), a black marble mausoleum that was planned to be built across the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan desired a mausoleum for himself similar to that of the one he had built in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
P1KgV TIL that on the 1985 Santana album Beyond Appearances both the drummer and keyboardist were men named Chester Thompson. The album is notable for being one of the few with two musicians of the same name in the same band.
7joM TIL There’s a brewery in Germany that’s almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040
wLPQ7 TIL about Piaget’s theory of development. He believed infants in the early stages of development lack object permanence (the understanding that people and things still exist even when you can’t see them). Which would explain why peekaboo is so intriguing for them!
Z8nl4 TIL: The F-35 has a lifespan of 8,000 hours and it costs $44,000 per hour to fly.