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TIL The largest landowner in the world is the Catholic Church

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kOj7g TIL com­pos­ing and ar­ran­ging mu­sic is partly ge­net­ically de­term­ined. Up to 30 percent of a musician's ability to compose and arrange music can be explained by genes in the cerebellar LTD pathway.
lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.
d858K TIL that Anna Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day in the US
ANdQ4 TIL that Steven Spielberg spent his own personal time and money refilming the Ben Gardner jumpscare in JAWS in the pool of Editor Verna Fields. This was after production had already wrapped.
16rE8 TIL: A study on the history of bedbugs found that ancient humans received them intermittently due to nomadic lifestyle and they were considered pest and potion ingredients as cures for snake bites, malaria etc. Bed bugs were introduced to America by Europeans and recently there is a resurgence.