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TIL there are two "4K" resolutions: 3840x2160 and 4096x2160
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TIL the language you grow up speaking determines how quickly you will learn to count. Chinese speaking children learn to count to 100 an entire year earlier than their English speaking counterparts.
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TIL about the navy of Mongolia, which sits on a lake with no strategic importance whatsoever, and consists of a single tugboat crewed by 7 people, only one of whom can swim.
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TIL Bear Grylls has launched a survival academy. There are 3-day or 6-day courses currently offered in Scotland and will be expanding to the US in 2013.
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TIL that JJ Thomson, a famous physicist who lived from 1856-1940 and who was known for identifying the electron as a discreet particle (for which he won a Nobel Prize), was such an amazing teacher that 9 of his students also won the Nobel Prize across multiple fields.
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TIL The only one who has been punished because of USA’s tortue scandal is the one who told the press about it