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TIL: Right-or left-handedness affects sign language comprehension.

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x641o TIL, the first Graecopithecus skeleton was found in 1944 by German soldiers digging a bunker. Graecopithecus were an ancestor of homo sapiens that lived about 7.2 million years ago. The bones were damaged by Allied bombing in the closing days of WWII.
wkg8 TIL “Reading Rainbow’ was cancelled because of President Bush’s "No Child Left Behind”
p8yDG TIL scientists in 2013 took actually pictures of molecules before and after a chemical reaction.
P1OXe TIL in the US police get as low as 672 hours of training, while New Zealand the next lowest Western country requiring at least 1924 hours of training. And a lot of countries require 4500 hours of training.
PYn7w TIL: There's a dude who plays classical piano for elephants.