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TIL The man who wrote what is considered the first significant self help book in 1859, Samuel Smiles, is the great-great-grandfather of Bear Grylls.

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wGvW TIL British police cars carry teddy bears to console children after accidents
yMrw TIL Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in the world, representing 92% of China’s population and 19% of the entire human population. (~1.3 Billion people)
Yp6nr TIL 25% of young adults (20-34yo) in the UK are living with their parents.
DQnEP TIL of the Polavaram Project, a very large Earth-Cum-Rock fill dam that is nearly ready to begin construction in India
lZpB TIL that when critics accused David Lee Roth of only writing songs about partying , women, and cars he realized he actually hadn’t written any songs about cars so he wrote “Panama”.