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TIL that Ringo Starr sells his MS paint art for thousands of dollars

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md4R TIL that actor Rowan Atkinson, famous for his hilariously dim-witted characters like Mr. Bean and Johnny English, received his Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Oxford University prior to his acting career.
ep7r5 TIL in 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountain east of Chile. The survivors had to resort to cannibalism to survive in freezing cold weather. Rescue arrived after two months when two survivors climbed a 4650-meter mountain peak and hiked 61 km to seek help.
Z89ZD TIL the pinching force of "29 coconut crabs collected from the northern part of Okinawa Island" in Japan "ranged from 29.4 to 1765.2 N." "During our field study," write the researchers, "obtaining data for analysis was challenging, as the large claws of this crab pinched us on multiple occasions."
0w56A New research shows a Platonic ideal may be true after all: The world may primarily break into cubes, and not just in Minecraft.
E15Qx TIL that due to New Zealand's remoteness, it was the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life