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TIL IQ tests only measure your intelligence relative to everyone else. If we as a group all got smarter or dumber, the IQ numbers would stay the same.

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NXGW1 TIL in 1948, 76 Beavers in Idaho were airlifted by parachutes to relocate them in a government program called "Beaver Drop", due to complaints of public nuisance - despite their dams contributing to multiple natural benefits. The estimated value of a beaver's work was $300 ($5800 in 2021).
PYAge TIL With one working arm, numerous facial wounds, and 8 of his crew dead or critically wounded, B-17 Pilot Lt. William R Lawley managed to fly his crippled plane one-handed all the way back to England, where he made a miraculous landing that saved the lives of all surviving crew members
xLo1 TIL in 1981 a man with cerebral palsy appeared on a UK kids’ TV show to demonstrate how much a disabled person can achieve. Instead it sparked a nationwide trend of schoolchildren mocking his speech and calling each other “spastic” as an insult.
9YwK6 TIL of the Marsh vs Alabama case where the Supreme Court deemed it not trespassing for jehovah's witnesses to walk and preech on privately owned sidewalks
kJllE TIL in 1969 North Korea shot down a US surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board and that the US did not retaliate at all.