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TIL Sharks have existed longer than trees
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TIL that, after Richard Feynman was named the world’s smartest man by Omni magazine, his mother said, “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”.
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TIL Sub-replacement fertility that is a fertility rate which, if sustained, leads to each new generation being less populous than the older is around 2.33 as opposed to the intuitive guess of 2 children per woman.
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TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.
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TIL The Guinness Book of World Records, was an idea conceived by British engineer Sir Hugh Beaver (the Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) to solve trivia questions among bar patrons.
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TIL height is inversely correlated with life expectancy. Studies have found that men below 5' 9" live on average 4.95 years longer than men above 5' 9".