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TIL men have better spacial cognition than women and can put together IKEA furniture with or without the manual faster than women using the manual. Women’s performance suffered greatly without the manual, but men’s performance showed no major difference with or without the manual.

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AGpd TIL in 1996, Lego gave bricks to Polish artist Zbigniew Libera asking him to make a set for them. He decided to make a recreation of Auschwitz
wLA46 TIL that Tolkein's Lord of The Rings trilogy has a word count of 481,103 words. In comparison, book 3 of another popular fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin called A Storm of Swords alone has a word count of 424,000 words.
J1AXV TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)
MybV TIL that there is 10 gallons of oil in every tire & roughly 2% of the United State’s annual oil consumption is discarded tires.
4XQLb TIL the orange balls on power lines are called visibility marker balls (or just marker balls, for short), and they help make power lines more obvious to low-flying aircraft like planes and helicopters.