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TIL that the bigger an animal’s brain, the longer it will yawn

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GBJg TIL That while hundreds of students get perfect SAT scores each year, no student has EVER gotten a perfect score on China’s 9-hour equivalent, the Gaokao, a test taken by close to 10M people each year.
eK05 TIL that at concerts in Finland, instead of yelling at the band to play Free Bird as a joke, they yell at the band to play Paranoid (by Black Sabbath)
KYM0E TIL Craig Mazin, the writer of The Last of Us and Chernobyl also wrote Superhero Movie and co-wrote Scary Movie 3 & 4
6EPQw TIL that in 1969, Georges Perec wrote a 300-page novel called "La Disparition" which completely lacked the letter 'e'. It has since been translated into a dozen languages maintaining this limitation, including an English version entitled "A Void".
5LOB TIL Little Caesar’s makes only a .90 cents profit on a 5.00 hot and ready pizza. $3.50 goes to the ingredients and 60 cents for overhead