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TIL scientists scanned the brains of lifelong bullies and found that they are physically small

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X0vpP TIL that the Dutch Caribbean, speaks a Portuguese-based creole (Papiamentu) and English as the majority spoken languages. Although Dutch is widely taught and known among locals.
KON5R TIL to just be allowed to try out for the US Olympic team for running the marathon, you have to run a marathon in under 2 hours and 19 minutes. That is the same thing as running 26 miles where each mile is done in around 5 minutes and 18 seconds.
jNMmn TIL that fire fighters and others who inhaled Ground Zero air essentially lost 12 years of lung function
R7JQ6 TIL: Sony didn't believe that Aaron Sorkin's 162 page script for 'The Social Network' would come out under 2 hours. David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it aloud. The reading took 1 hour and 59 minutes, which was the exact running time of the final cut
4kNbo TIL that Madame Tussaud's skill at making wax replicas of people is what saved her from the French Revolution's Guillotine.