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TIL Wealth matters more than ability to succeed in school

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oRdb8 TIL John Boyne, the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, accidently included references to Legend of Zelda monsters and cooking them in a historical novel due to research mishap.
Avn4 TIL that in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, 27 British warships faced off against 33 French and Spanish warships. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost.
D1yVj TIL in testing the reaction of Tamarin monkeys to music, researchers found they reacted positively to specially-composed pieces that corresponded to their physiology: pitched 3 octaves above our music, and at 200 bpm to be relaxing
rgOy TIL - In 1999 Russia orchestrated a series of ‘false flag’ bombings as justification to invade Chechnya.
0dNkp TIL an Orange County man named Jeff Reitz went to Disneyland every day for over 8 years, 2,995 consecutive days, and only stopped because of Covid on March 14, 2020.