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TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !

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PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.
R5bd4 TIL an RHS test building covered in ivy stayed 7.2C cooler then non covered buildings. The leave structure also kept the walls dry, lowering humidity and protecting it from corrosion
x665g TIL of Juliet Prowse, who was engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis, and was the first ever guest on The Muppet Show
P1OKV TIL about ambigrams which are calligraphic writing of word so they can have similar or different meanings when viewed in different orientations.
X0X08 TIL chickens can count and even do some artihmetic