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TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.

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d86Aj TIL the dissections of Da Vinci began an artistic style called écorché (flayed in French), which graphically depicts the body without skin. This musculoskeletal blueprint for postures and gestures aided Renaissance realism. In the Enlightenment, mass-produced sculptures standardized medical studies
l7vOB TIL Smokers aged 75 and older have, on average, 5.8 fewer teeth than their non-smoking counterparts.
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6EgEY TIL, Disneyland's Jungle Cruise is now a self sustaining ecosystem and requires very little landscaping