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TIL Four babies are born every second

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PYAMJ TIL Dolph Lundgren aka Drago has a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney(‘82)and Royal Institute of Technology(‘80). He received a fulbright scholarship to MIT(‘83). He’s European Champion in Karate (‘81) and has an IQ of 160.
GA155 TIL that a group of 25 people could maintain their energy balance for 60 days - eating one mammoth, 16 days - eating a deer, but only half a day eating another human.
LQd6v TIL Rodger Young, despite being deaf and nearly blind (due to a head injury) and the shortest soldier in his company, won the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly destroying a Japanese machine gun nest (at the cost of his life) in WWII
VxRB TIL that Mexicans have the highest average annual hours worked in the world
yr98 TIL that most senior animators at Disney chose to work on Pocahontas rather than the Lion King as many at Disney had little faith in the project, leaving mostly first time animators to work on the Lion King.