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TIL Research shows that starting school at 10am instead of 8:30am halves student illness and improves academic performance.

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nejvb TIL that tongue twister 'she sells seashells by the seashore' is about a real girl named Mary Anning. She also happened to be one of the very first people to discover a massive dinosaur fossil, which she did at age 12 while looking for seashells to sell by the seashore.
xoWw TIL that blind-from-birth men prefer female figures with the same waist-to-hip ratio (0.7) as sighted men do
ex9b TIL A sailor in the British Royal Navy may only grow a beard if they can achieve a ‘respectably full enough beard’ after two weeks’ growth.
n8DG TIL when the bees in a region of China disappeared, people pollinated apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers. When humans pollinated, apple production increased 30-40%.
Jenv TIL that someone sued Pepsi for not letting him trade in 7 million Pepsi Points for a Harrier Jet, which had been previously advertised.