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TIL In 2018 the WHO classified ageing as a disease

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XEypj TIL a web developer bought the domain name milk.com in 1994, then refused to sell any part of it to industry for less than $10 million. In 2021 the domain has still not been sold.
OoBJL TIL that when parents view failure as debilitating and focus on their children’s performance rather on learning, their children tend to believe that intelligence is a fixed characteristic, rather than something malleable that they can improve.
M7O8b TiL about the "Sweet Track" a causeway built by a Neolithic community in 3807 B.C.
Lk9Vv TIL the main reason birds have hollow bones isn't to make them lighter. It's extra lung so they can breathe better.
YpQJW TIL James Earl Jones was an Army Infantry Officer after graduating from the University of Michigan’s ROTC program