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TIL John Cleese’s ex-wife is now worth more than him due to their divorce settlement

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1OQW TIL in 1890’s, George Stratton, an American psychologist, wore inverted lenses to prove the brain adapts, and by the fifth day his brain started turning all the images upside down, so he would see the world normally.
nvV9 TIL IBM made the world’s smallest movie by moving around individual atoms, magnified 100 million times
4y5J TIL that 11,500+ year old man-made monolithic structures discovered in southeastern Turkey.Structures are dated thousands of years older than Egyptian Pyramids.Discoverer says it requires decent engineering skills to build such structures. (45 min, National Geographic documentary)
WyLX TIL that today, 69 per cent of children aged two to five can use a computer mouse, but only 11 per cent can tie their own shoelaces; and more young people know how to play a computer game (58 per cent) than swim (20 per cent) or ride a bike (52 per cent).
W7JR4 TIL Katey Sagal of Married with Children father was killed when he turned the wrong way into a helicopter tail rotor