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TIL that researchers at the universities in Durham and Lisbon believe that the essential story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ dates back over 5,000 years. This prototype of Jack’s beanstalk antics is classified by folklorists as ATU 328 - The Boy Who Stole Ogre’s Treasure.

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0wLjR TIL about Tidal locking when rotation and translation takes the same time. For example, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. And almost all bodies will eventually be tidal locked.
Yp5aG TIL The association between glasses and being elderly/weak/passive faded when Theodore Roosevelt was regularly photographed wearing his pince-nez glasses. Other famously bespectacled people of the era are the actor Harold Lloyd and the cricket player Ernest Killick.
4XmkN TIL: Jeff Bezos is worth 131 Billion Dollars. 1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion seconds is 32 years, 131 billion seconds is 4,192 years. If Bezos had a dollar for every second he would have started at 2,200 BC during the end of the old kingdom of ancient Egypt up until now.
nWBnW TIL that over 30,000 U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide — over four times as many as have died in combat.
17j7 TIL a 16th century French peasant was accused of being an imposter by his family after being gone for 8 years and then living with his wife and child for a subsequent 3 years. Just as he was about to be found innocent, the real husband showed up in court.