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TIL The Word “meme” was coined by Biologist Richard Dawkins to refer to ideas that spread and replicate in a Darwinian fashion

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4XJrR TIL men born in the East of Glasgow, Scotland, have a life expectancy of 54 years
woEGY TIL Martin Van Buren Bates (1837-1919) is currently the tallest known person to live to at least 80 years. He stood at 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m).
OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.
5OZr TIL There is a website that will tell you if your computer is on or not.
4k4kw TIL - During the gold rush these items would cost (in todays equivalent) you: eggs - $90, butter slice of bread $56, a pick axe $1500. Inflation during the Tech Boom was nothing compared to the Gold Rush - article from 2015.