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TIL that Breakfast is Often Considered the Most Important Meal of the Day – But Is It Really?

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ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
69NBl TIL Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century, was asked by his sister to help build a house. He spent a year designing the door handles.
0dGBR TIL why do mirrors reverse left and right, but not top and bottom? The mirror does not reflect left to right or top to bottom, but it does reflect backwards. In other words, it is reversed, but inverted into the third dimension, like a glove is turned inside out.
jeOa TIL that there is such a thing as a ‘Trauma Handshake’ a procedure in which two fingers are inserted into the rectum in order to make sure that your brain still has control over your anal sphincter.
R77x4 TIL Europeans evolved white skin in the last 8,000 years.