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TIL The longest ever personality study found no correlation between people’s personalities at age 14 and age 77

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pYdw4 TIL that Soviet General Georgy Zhukov oversaw innovations on the Mongolian front, including replacing gasoline engines in tanks with diesel. These developments helped perfect the T-34 tank, considered the war's most outstanding all-purpose tank.
gM95b TIL even though the piano creates sound using strings, it is usually classified as a percussion instrument because the strings are hit by hammers to generate the sound, rather than plucked or bowed.
e0dk4 TIL the US state that produces the most dairy is California, not Wisconsin
yQvra TIL John Cleese named his character Archie Leach, Cary Grant's real name, in A Fish Called Wanda since he felt "this film is as near as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."
xZ6g TIL 3 men, Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov, sacrificed themselves to save millions of people by diving into the reservoir beneath Chernobyl’s reactor to cease an imminent steam explosion that would’ve turned catastrophe-level accident into a doomsday-level accident.