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

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vPENR TIL a classical work described as "Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra" was composited from a July 27, 1996 performance with the Monteverdi Choir and L’Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Avery Fisher Hall.
6xLm TIL the sound of the velociraptors barking at each other in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park was actually the sound of tortoises mating.
mxlJM TIL US incarceration rates exceeds the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Stalin’s Gulag system
aN1o TIL Stephen King and his wife donated $1.2 million to build a baseball stadium in Bangor Maine under the condition that he could see the scoreboard from his home office window
8avNK TIL of the largest mass kidnapping in US history. A school bus driver and 26 children were abducted as part of a failed ransom plot in 1976. They were buried alive in the back of a moving van. The driver, with help from some of the older kids, managed to open a trapdoor and free everyone inside.