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TIL- Sylvester Stallone was voted into the Boxing Hall of Fame for his contributions as a promoter to the sport and his role as Rocky Balboa.

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D19OJ TIL about the Mako Mori Test, an improved version of the Bechdel test which examines whether or not a work of fiction includes at least one female character with her own narrative arc which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.
e0BwE TIL that North Korean college coders beat Stanford University in a 2016 competition
78EX TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
rN5g0 TIL depression can and has been transferred from humans to mice through gut microbiome
Ae6B TIL of Dunbar’s number, a theory that suggests there is a cognitive limit to how many people one person can maintain a meaningful relationship with. The number he suggests, 150. There are 4 layers to this; your 5 closest friends, 10 “best” friends, 35 “close friends”, and 100 not so close friends.