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1918

TIL Differences in finger length have been repeatedly linked to a range of human traits, from aggression to musical ability to sexual orientation. [National Geographic]

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DlbP TIL One Of The Media’s Favorite “Millennials” To Quote Is Actually a 55-Year-Old Lying About His Age
awWWN TIL that the first two toys to use electronic sound chips to make noise rather than an analogue recordings, Simon and the Speak & Spell, both got their hardware from graphic calculator maker Texas Instruments
X01lR TIL: Dumbbells are named after silenced[dumb] bell towers that were used to practice ringing the heavy bells
X09VX TIL in 1968, the U.S. Army accidentally released 160 gallons of VX nerve gas in Utah, killing over 6,000 sheep and sparking public outrage that helped end America’s biological weapons program.
YQNZ TIL that, including the Chernobyl disaster, Nuclear Power is responsible for 0.09 deaths per Terra-watt hour of electricity produced. Coal is responsible for 170 deaths/TWh