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TIL that 10 percent of the population in the whole world are left-handed or lefties. Lefties use their brains differently but they encounter struggles like using scissors and computer mouse. But one thing's for sure, lefties are unique and favor to use their left hand

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DQGdY TIL that as a young college football coach, John Madden once attended a clinic taught by Vince Lombardi. Lombardi talked for 8 hours about a single play, the power sweep. Confident in his knowledge before the clinic, when it was over, Madden came out thinking he knew nothing about football
Z8NG4 TIL A beluga whale named Hvalimir was found in a Norwegian harbor in 2019 with a camera harness attached leading to speculation of it being a Russian spy whale. Russia did not deny claims that it is a possible escapee from their Navy. It now resides peacefully in the harbor seeking human contact.
VMg9k TIL of Winthrop Niles Kellogg. He attempted to "humanize" a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like.
78VPZ TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
xga0 TIL of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnnsen, a dutch warship that evaded the Japanese during world war 2 by planting trees all around the ship and sailing close to islands. So the Japanese wouldn’t think it was an enemy ship but part of an island. The ship was the only one of the fleet to return.