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TIL The word “Meme” originates from famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”.

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e6VD TIL that Eddie Murphy discovered Chris Rock while he was at a night club stacking chairs.
Y704P TIL of the "Gamma Forest" at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. A forest that was exposed to intense radiation in order to study the effects of nuclear war on a living ecosystem
j6AnN TIL Walking through a doorway can cause a person to forget their original task or thought, known as the "doorway effect."
0dk61 Today I learned about the Swedish million apartments programme. The Swedish government of 1965 pledged to build 1 million new apartments in a country of 8 million people in 10 years. 1006000 apartments was built.
KXj4 TIL: That Louis CK’s television daughter is a world-class violinist (Jane)