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TIL that someone with Down Syndrome can have a 120 IQ.

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Ajew Til that young people born to rich families who don’t go to college are 2.5 times more likely to end up in the richest quartile than young people born to poor families who do go college
oRlZA TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
wPo TIL Guinness bought every British soldier in WWII a pint on Christmas Day. They would pay half your wages to your family while at war, guaranteed job when returning, funeral expenses, vacations, childrens’ education, scholarships, and paid wages 20% higher than other breweries (see more in link).
R5ola TIL that the term "use case" originated in software engineering and was popularized by Ivar Jacobson, a Swedish computer scientist, in the 1980s. The first known published use of the term "use case" was in Jacobson's 1992 book "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach.”
VMe5k TIL For the Ancient Greeks, the word Barbarian (Bárbaros) originally meant anyone who didn't speak Greek. They would imitate other languages using onomatopoeia "bar bar bar." Even Romans were considered to be barbarians by Ancient Greek standards.