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TIL In a UK survey, 35% of adults couldn’t calculate the mode, 31% the median, 28% the mean and 27% the area of a circle.

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wYA8 TIL that the chorus of “Carry On My Wayward Son” is meant to be a conversation between Icarus and his father, Daedalus
780GM TIL 90s Pauly Shore film Biodome was based on a real project called Biosphere 2, which was way more interesting than the movie
Egxko TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.
xJg TIL until the 18th century we had a “single-sex” view of the two bodies, where women were simply cold, “underdeveloped” men, whose penises never dropped. The vagina was an “inside-out penis,” and both men and women produced semen.
Er0d TIL During WW2, captured German officers, sent to Britain as POWs, lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitlers madness and V2 rocket bases.