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TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.

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WkmjX TIL About an experiment done between 1929-1935 that found that students only needed 1 year of Math in Grade 6 to perform just as well as other students that had been doing Math lessons for 6 years.
4XDv5 TIL when Elton John changed his name from Reginald Dwight, he also gave himself a middle name. His full name is Elton Hercules John
ngK9 TIL that Emily Blunt developed a debilitating stutter in her childhood, which couldn’t be cured by speech or relaxation coaches. It was cured when she was asked to speak in an accent in the school play
e8DD TIL in a letter called the Ashtiname, Muhammad called on followers of Islam to protect Christians “in any place they may dwell.” Violators would be regarded as having “despised [God’s] Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam.”
LkYjp TIL that the number of bacteria on earth is estimated to be 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is five million trillion trillion or 5 x 10 to the 30th power.