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TIL Robert Redford does not watch his own movies once he is done filming.

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wog6M TIL Sharks are Older than Trees. The first organisms we’d recognize as trees (the extinct genus Archaeopteris) didn’t appear until roughly 350 million years ago, at least 50–100 million years after sharks were already cruising the oceans.
m1dNo TIL that 1 liter of water is the equivalent of 1kg
vYnj TIL that Da Vinci used to be a comedic genius - by putting fake wings and horns on lizards he’d scare people in the Vatican. He’d also trap people in the corner of rooms by making giant ‘balloons’.
JP7v TIL only 200 people have passed the three day master sommelier diploma exam over 40 years, making it the hardest test in the world.
a9wL TIL that for native English speakers, the hardest languages to learn are: Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and especially Japanese.