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TIL J. Cole and ScHoolboy Q were born in the same state, in Germany

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e0eGk TIL in 1986, Harrods, a small restaurant in the town of Otorohanga, New Zealand, was threatened with a lawsuit by the famous department store of the same name. In response, the town changed its name to Harrodsville and renamed all of its businesses ‘Harrods'.
VBEQk TIL about Ortolan Bunting, a vulnerable songbird that is drowned in brandy, then roasted and then eaten whole except for the beak in a single mouthful. Diners drape a towel over their head to (debatably) hide the act from God.
vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.
160D4 TIL: Unemployment Insurance (USA): Estimated Amount of Fraud: $100+ Billion. Check That Your SSN wasn't stolen.
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.