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TIL that Children From Low-Income Households With Rich Friends Are Likely to Earn More in Adulthood

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M7rmb TIL that 1. Sir Jason Kenny 2. Sir Chris Hoy 3. Sir Steve Redgrave and 4. Sir Mo Farah who have respectively the most, 2nd most, 3rd most and 4th most olympic gold medals for Great Britain share the same birthday 23rd March (exactly 9 months after 23 June International olympic day)
6MmZ TIL the infinite monkey theorem, which states that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually write any text, was tested with 5 real monkeys. They managed to type 5 pages largely consisting of the letter S, but they also starting bashing the keyboard with a rock, defecating and urinating on it.