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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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5YEVp TIL about Benjamin Bolger, a man with dyslexia who possesses 14 degrees. He's one of the most credentialed perpetual students in human history.
oDQ7 TIL: There are no qualifications to be a Justice on the United States Supreme Court; you don’t even have to be a lawyer.
JYLl1 TIL about the world's roundest object intended for re-defining exactly one kilogram by counting the number of silicon-28 atoms that forms it and redefining the Avogadro's number
PbRw TIL The first ever webpage, made in 1990 by CERN, is still functioning today and you can browse it here…
W7VQ4 TIL that sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. The oldest confirmed sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, while most living species of birds date back to less than 1.8 million years.