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TIL Half of European men share King Tut’s DNA

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1aWPP TIL China built a massive solar farm shaped like a giant panda!
Y7G5W TIL that people are better at recalling unfinished tasks than completed tasks; this is called the 'Zeigarnik Effect'
R5pgw TIL that World Famous Italian Tenor Luciano Pavarotti wanted to Become a Football Goalkeeper - but His Mother Convinced Him to Become a Teacher. Only after Teaching for Two Years did Pavarotti Start His Music Career, and, According to One Conductor, Pavarotti Never Learned to Read Notes.
YyXv TIL in a recent survey, philosophy majors ranked ranked themselves higher in regards to innate talent than biochemists, statisticians and physicists.
LQPp TIL the World’s Greatest Living Explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was thrown out of the SAS for blowing upa movie set, climbed Everest to get rid of his vertigo, did 7 marathons in 7 days a few months after heart bypass surgery, amputated his own fingers and was considered for the role of James Bond.