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TIL There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

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PGyV TIL that in 2011 a 75 year old Georgian woman cut off internet access to the whole of Armenia when she severed a single cable while digging with a shovel
dDNV7 TIL about Ship Money, a tax on coastal areas of England to promote ship building in times of war. King Charles I tried to levy it in peacetime and to extend it to the inland counties of England without parliamentary approval. It provoked fierce resistance and helped to trigger the English Civil War.
yQoJl TIL that Kim Peek, a savant who was the inspiration for the Rain Man movie, could read the both pages of an open book at once, one page with one eye and the other page with the other eye
VMOb0 TIL A Navy study showed that washing hands 5 times daily reduced incidence of respiratory infections by 45% over a two year period.
XQyR TIL: Nostrils split their workload, taking it in turns to take in the lion’s share of air, automatically switching every few hours. It’s called the ‘nasal cycle’ and is why one nostril often feels stuffier than the other.