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TIL that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to make assumptions that aren’t based on facts and logical thinking.

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vPd7r TIL that 27% of WWII Japan's Allied prisoners died while 4% of Nazi Germany's Allied prisoners died.
x6A7w TIL the 85-year-old Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal study in history, found that people who did more chores during childhood often had more professional success and happiness later in life.
xXvw TIL that “shhh” works for quieting and comforting people because it replicates the sound heard by a fetus of blood going by its ear while it’s in the womb.
AROg TIL that there is a snail that is a snail whose poison is so complex that there is no anti venom for it. It also preys on fish and swallows them whole like a snake, also it has a biological harpoon.
GYXaE TIL that in 2009 there was a race between an ISP and a carrier pidgeon to transport 4GB of data, the pidgeon won transporting the data in a little over an hour while the ISP only transferred 4% of the data.