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TIL: High IQ does not necessarily mean high job performance. Emotional intelligence (EI/ EQ) has shown to be a better indicator of job success.

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E168P TIL that Keanu Reeves trained for four months in karate for The Matrix. Later, he learned over 200 martial arts moves for Matrix Reloaded and also learned Judo and Jujitso for John Wick.
GYabJ TIL Due to some deeply evolved responses to disease, fears of contagion lead us to become more conformist and tribalistic, and less accepting of eccentricity.
Rana TIL that when President Kennedy asked the Mexican ambassador to declare Cuba a threat to their security he replied that “40 million Mexicans will die laughing.”
xn7o TIL that screwdrivers “popping out” of Phillips-head screws is an intentional design goal of the Phillips-head shape, to prevent thread damage during automated manufacturing. The design remains popular even though improvements to automatic screwdrivers have largely eliminated its benefits.
4lp5 TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell