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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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XEBbr TIL of the Sea Peoples. They were a group of raiders and pirates that nearly toppled ancient Egypt, conquering almost half the country. Archaeologists do not know anything about where they came from or who they went afterwards.
APZw TIL a NFL game is 60 minutes by regulation, in total lasts 3 hours and 10 mins, and consists of ONLY 11 MINUTES of actual gameplay.
7Gbb TIL there are languages without the terms “Left, Right, Front, and Behind.” These cultures use “North, South, East, and West” their whole lives no matter if they are in a room or in the woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they are oriented.
9wOVm TIL that there is an Ancient Egyptian text from around 1000 BCE titled "The Immortality of Writers," including the quote "Man decays, his corpse is dust. All his kin have perished; But a book makes him remembered through the mouth of its reciter."
61eY TIL there is only one recording of Hitler’s voice where he is not giving a speech - a private conversation between himself and Finnish leader Mannerheim recorded in secrecy by a sound engineer in 1942