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TIL that human brains are specialized for face recognition while chimp brains are specialized for butt recognition.

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WkjlN TIL 23-year-old Charlie Johns married Eunice Winstead Jones, age 9. They they had 7 children and marriage lasted 60 years. He died at age 83 in 1997, and she at 86 in 2006.
rRyLe TIL Over two years, during the time of the Great Plague of 1665-6, young Isaac Newton developed a new theory of light, discovered and quantified gravitation, and pioneered a revolutionary new approach to mathematics: infinitesimal calculus
OGbm4 TIL that on 27 April 1865 the steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi, killing about 1,700 mostly Union POWs—the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history
wLpDo TIL when Citroen released a van named Jumpy, they renamed it Dispatch in English-speaking markets.
aw7d0 TIL that an unnamed wealthy property owner regularly buys large mansions just to watch them deteriorate.