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TIL our subconscious brain uses height as a measurement to determine social status and authority. That’s why CEOs of big companies tend to be taller than average people. Surveys have uncovered that almost 90% of CEOs were above 6”00 (Fortune 500 CEOs are 6”2 on average)

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rN0a4 TIL the total number of Americans over 7-feet tall is estimated between 85 and 150.
9wxZD TIL Druids were exempt from taxes, military service, and were held in such high esteem they could stop battles between warring armies.
ewvn TIL in 1251, Henry III was given a polar bear by the king of Norway. He kept it in the Tower of London, on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames.
neaJ9 TIL that in the making of the documentary film “They Shall Not Grow Old”, Peter Jackson’s crew visually restored 100 hours of Imperial War Museum WWI footage for free “just to get their archive in better shape”.
DQEr TIL there is a planet, 55 Cancre e, 40 light years away which is twice the size of Earth and has 1/3 of its mass made up of diamond