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TIL that when early humans transitioned from hunter gathering to agriculture, it actually lowered their standards of living.

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x65ww TIL, vegan horseback riding, aka hobby horsing, is a sport.
6EkvZ TIL London Taxi drivers have to memorize ~25,000 streets (called "the Knowledge") in order to get licensed. A 2000 study found that they have larger hippocampi, a part of the brain associated with learning and memory.
0w4Dv Today I learned... many California inmates have served time by becoming forest firefighters
DOwD TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger used to participate in orgies with other bodybuilders in the 70’s as “having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training .. afterward you go back to the serious stuff.” He was antihomophobic, claiming that gays and bodybuilders faced stereotyping.
Vd9k TIL of a website that gives online piano lessons for free. Hoffman Academy – Online Piano Lessons for Free