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TIL That Japanese people have a literacy rate of almost 100%.
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TIL: Julie Taymor became first woman to win Best Direction Tony 1998
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TIL the Krakatoa eruption, the loudest recorded sound in history, was heard from 3,000miles away. That’s like being in Boston and hearing a sound from Dublin, Ireland.
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TIL a 2013 study found that the act of chopping down trees results in greater increases in testosterone than does a directly competitive activity such a soccer. Chopping down trees saw an increase of 46.8%, whereas, soccer only saw an increase of 30.1%.
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TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.
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TIL Race car driver Niki Lauda was born into a wealthy Austrian family but cut off contact because they did not support his career. Without their support he ended up having to go into debt to continue driving... but ended up becoming one of the most successful F1 drivers in history