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TIL - 0.1% of males in Greenland are circumsized.

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mxBLo TIL Robin Williams funded a scholarship at his alma mater, Juilliard, that saw a full-ride given to a student every two years. One of the people who won the award was future Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, who became the first person from her family to go to college
b6gZj TIL There's a football(soccer) player named Osama Vinladen with a brother named Saddam Hussein.
Lkmar TIL that The Sperm Whale have the largest brain and cerebrum of any known animals in existence, it weighs 5 times that of a humans brain! Neanderthals also had, on average, larger brains than modern humans.
K9WB TIL Frederick W. Smith, the founder of Fedex, saved the company by gambling the last $5000 they had on blackjack. He won $27,000 and was able to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.