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TIL about Meier-Gorlin syndrome, 'a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder', or the underdevelopment of ears, according to Wikipedia

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kJQeE TIL that Zera Yacob, a 17th-century Ethiopian philosopher, wrote a treatise advocating reason, individual conscience, and developed a rationalist philosophy decades before Descartes and the European Enlightenment.
wjVJ TIL that in India mobile internet was used 4.1 million times per month on average to search with the word ‘rape’ over the past year.Search keywords included “Indian girls raped”, “raping video”,“raped in public”, “little girl raped”, “raping mom”, “father raping daughter” and “raped to death”.
woZm8 TIL that Minecraft became the first video game ever to reach 300 million copies sold worldwide and this equates to it having sold 47 copies per minute, every minute, since the game's release in 2011.
VX5p TIL Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered to sell Google for $1M and were rejected
d8A19 TIL At the end of the Gulf War, 20 people died in Kuwait due to falling bullets from celebratory gunfire.