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TIL there were still free and wild lions living in parts of Europe until the late 1800s

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R5MrQ TIL of the Ikea effect. It is a psychological bias that causes us to over-value things that we build or assemble ourselves.
P1Pgn TIL: Ahmed Gabr, an Egyptian retired special forces army officer holds two Guiness World records for The deepest sea water dive and the deepest scuba dive (male) at 332.36m or 1090.4ft in the Red Sea in 2014.
9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.
E1QlV TIL: The concept of being dominantly left or right brained is a myth. And, the neuroscience community has never accepted the idea of 'left-dominant' or 'right-dominant' personality types.
lL81 TIL Russell Brand was legally entitled to take $20 million dollars from Katy Perry’s fortune after their divorce but refused to take any.