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TIL We Perceive People that Annoy Us as Moving Slower than They Are

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Aj4g TIL Lake Toba is the largest volcanic eruption to have happened in the last 25 million years, and was believed to have killed most of the human race at the time, causing a population bottleneck which affects genetic diversity to this day.
EZDo TIL that Iran has the most transexual operations in the world (after Thailand) and that the government will pay for up to half the cost.
OG5r4 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
4XeWw TIL of Joachim Neander - latin for "New Man"- a 17th century pastor who composed music inspired by a small German valley. That valley would be the site of the discovery of a new species of hominid called Neanderthal.
WEpN TIL If we extract all the gold out of the ocean, there would be enough for everyone to have 9 pounds of gold