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TIL the Union Jack is not symmetrical, to guarantee you can’t hang it upside down

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JYLb8 TIL the closest relative of the common head louse is the gorilla louse, which only infects gorillas. It is speculated that modern human lice are descended from gorilla lice that parasitized early humans that slept in gorilla nests or butchered gorilla corpses.
GAvwJ TIL of the Diamond Sutra, the World’s oldest dated printed book
87k8 TIL Norwegian Public Television station NRK is famous for airing utterly boring programming, such as a 12-hour live log-burning show and a 5-hour knitting special. The programming, known as “Slow TV”, reportedly achieves decent ratings
oBjNY TIL A type of interlocking brick were invented in the late 1930s (predating LEGO by a decade) called American Bricks by ELGO Plastics Company
BrZZe TIL Starchy carbs, not a Paleo diet, were responsible for the rapid increase in size of the human brain around 800,000 years ago. Eating meat may have kickstarted this evolution, but cooked starchy foods, together with more salivary amylase genes, made us smarter still.