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TIL that even though the wheel is often citied as man's original invention... it wasn't invented until after flutes, baskets, woven cloth, and even boats

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R5Bkl TIL between 1990-1994, Bashar Al Assad was an eye surgeon in London and was described as geeky and quiet. His boss and colleagues recalled him as humble and whom nurses thought exemplary in reassuring anxious patients about to undergo anaesthetic.
vPXj8 TIL about Diogo Alves, a Portuguese serial killer who’s perfectly preserved head has been on display in a jar in the University of Lisbon for nearly 200 years.
R7YO9 TIL Until it became independent in 1991, Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union. The territory that is now Belarus underwent partition and changed hands repeatedly
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1MOD TIL 9% of school-aged children are diagnosed with ADHD and medicated in the US, compared with 0.5% in France. The discrepancy comes from differences in treatment. France found that changing social context, not prescribing drugs, mitigated the behavioural problems in the majority of cases.