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TIL that the French revolution gave us the metric system and almost gave us metric clocks, too. They had 10 hours in the day, 10 days in the week, and an even 30 days each month.

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VGZm TIL: dogs circle around because of their ancestors.The process of circling around before finding a place to sleep would mat down grass, as well as scare away any bugs or snakes that might be in the place they want to sleep.
PPxL TIL that there exists a university in Canada (University of Victoria) offering a course in physical education titled as ‘The Science of Batman’.
wLrOY TIL The rarest natural hair color in the world is red, with only 1-2% of the world population having natural red hair. Second is blond, with 3%, then brown/brunette, with 11%, and finally black with 75-85%.
R5kv9 TIL that both hell.com and heaven.com lead to the same place! MyBible.com, a bible reading group!
wo5a8 TIL I learned Myanmar has the most public holidays of any country in the world with a 32 public holidays a year. With Mexico and Wales the least at 8.