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TIL the average child in the UK spends less time outdoors than prison inmates

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E1k8w TIL Mathematicians at London's King's College concluded Stanley Kubrick's The Shining(1980) to be the "perfect scary movie" according to new Mathematical Formula. The Formula is : (es+u+cs+t) squared +s+ (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n + sin x - 1
R5ve9 TIL Salt Spring Island off the coast of Vancouver Island has their own currency in circulation since 2001 and are accepted by local businesses on par with Canadian currency. Salt Spring Dollar bills feature images of local historical figures and art work by island artisans
awABJ TIL that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur. The genetics of eye colour are complex and has moved on from the original thought that eye colour was determined by a single gene, with brown being dominant and blue recessive.
5WJR TIL that the guitarist on Joe Cocker’s “With A Little Help From My Friends” is Jimmy Page
jNrkj TIL the practice of Yoga is thousands of years old, but the physical exercise most associated with it today was introduced to India by the YMCA in the 1920s, and is based on Swedish and Danish gymnastics.