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TIL only 10% of men in the world are 6ft +. Even in the US only 15% are above it.

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RPp9 TIL Trey Parker & Matt Stone were inspired to make ‘The Book of Mormon’ after seeing the Broadway musical 'Avenue Q’. Robert Lopez, creator of 'Avenue Q’, was inspired to make it after seeing Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s movie 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut’
Bg0wb TIL students once made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England. A 2023 study found that it had a murder rate 4-5x higher than that of London or York & 50x higher than current rates in 21st century English cities. The mix of young male students & booze was often a powder keg for violence.
VMALB TIL Ada Lovelace who wrote the first algorithm for a computing machine and first saw the potential in computers was a daughter of Lord Byron
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