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TIL we still don’t know why more boys are born than girls. Some theories include the notion, it’s more dangerous to be a male, thus you need extra males. Other research suggest living through wars gives rise to males.

W71mN TIL Laurence Fishburne was only 14 when filming Apocalypse Now, as he had lied about his age to get the role. Production took so long, he was 18 by the time of its release.
5YlBn TIL the owners of the Titanic demanded huge sums of money at the time to return the bodies of ship's crew to their grieving families.
4XoOo TIL a Cheetah bite will barely puncture an animals skin. Their relatively small jaws and teeth make it hard to effectively kill prey. A Cheetah kills by asphyxiation, which could take up to 5 to 25 minutes.
KOO7Q Imagine yourself at a concert hall looking at a symphonic orchestra on stage. Have you ever noticed that high-pitched strings sit left of low-pitched strings? Going from left to right, one usually sees violins, violas, cellos and double basses. That is, one moves from high pitches on the left to low pitches on the right. Why? The orchestra’s arrangement is not a cultural oddity, like driving on the right side of the road. Rather, it is due to our own biological makeup. Higher pitches tend to be better processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, while lower pitches tend to be better processed by a similar region in the right hemisphere. This organisation is thought to have repercussions far beyond music, perhaps even helping to explain why language is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. So the part of my brain that better processes high sounds sits where the higher-pitched instruments sit: on the left. But that’s not the end of the story.
DBkJ TIL that Hugh Jackman went without water for 36 hours before filming the opening scene of “Les Mis”.