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TIL about Major Dick Bong: The Greatest Fighter Pilot In American History (Flew Under The Golden Gate Bridge)

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ky75 TIL Edvard Grieg, the composer of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” hated the song. He intended it to be a parody of bad music from that time and it ended up becoming iconic.
JYXpk TIL that the average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. This paper claims that higher cognitive skills of a nation in general, and more importantly, its intellectual class, contributes to making it a richer country.
JYZNk TIL Some tumors can contain pockets of hair, teeth & very rarely, grow more complex organs such as eyes, feet, hands as well as other limbs.
w9g8 TIL the oldest animal ever was a 507 year old mollusc called Ming. It died because the British researchers who found it didn’t realize how old it was, so they froze it for research purposes
5Ywp8 TIL a public speaking expert theorised that the Australian accent sounds slurred because the first colonists were always drunk.