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TIL infants are born the ability to use logarithmic counting and if left unaltered never change to our system of 5 or 10 based integer method

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jdrp TIL the pilot script for “Scrubs” called for a “John McGinley type” for the part of Dr. Cox. John C. McGinley still had to audition five times to get the role.
ZwQ4 TIL that first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal was 120,000 years old
VVKk TIL Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard ordered the murders of the four defectors who leaked the church’s upper-level classified scriptures. He once fired blanks into the audience at one of his lectures to demonstrate how his church “audits” its critics.
X04oX TIL that "Dhoodh Peeti" was a type of female infanticide prevalent in few northwestern parts of India in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk. The phrase is a euphemism which literally means "Feeding of milk"
KOOjB Modern aircraft have two recorders– one that monitors comms, the other flight instruments. The black boxes are now orange. If the plane does crash, it's easier to find in the wreckage.