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TIL making girls play video games improves their spatial intelligence to match boys

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lvMa TIL before alarm clocks, there was a a profession called a knocker-upper who would go around and knock on your door until you awoke.
9Y0lr TIL Hummingbirds build their nests with dandelion seeds and spiderweb.
NXY0b TIL that the world's longest golf course is 1365km long. Nullarbor Links is an18-hole par 72 golf course with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia.
0dOdA TIL that, after he killed Julius Caesar, Brutus issued coins to celebrate the assassination, which featured a bust of Brutus himself on one side and two daggers on the other
4X7oa TIL Aladdin is Chinese in the original text and the story takes place in China.