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TIL The oldest human construction are some Australian Aboriginal Fish Traps (40,000 years old)

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xV551 TIL Jazzman Pat Metheny hated Kenny G playing over Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World, calling it a low point in modern culture and saying his "lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up" playing shat upon all musicians living or dead who were inspired by Armstrong.
ANZnB TIL most women have one breast that's larger than the other, with 65% reporting a smaller right breast. Theories as to why this includes women preferring to nurse on their left side, which results in that side producing more milk, and immune hypersensitivity being higher on the left side of the body
69RBl TIL that Emma Gibson, conceived in 1992 and frozen as an embryo, was born in 2017.
LQRyV TIL of French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke at 43 and became paralyzed. He suffered from locked-in syndrome, where his mind was intact but he could only move one eyelid. Bauby blinked out a 130-page novel that was a bestseller, passing away two days after it was published
e5Jn TIL John Wayne, in a 1971 interview with Playboy, said: “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago these people were slaves”