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TIL among young, elite chess players, not only was a higher IQ no advantage, but it seemed to put them at a slight disadvantage.

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XEd4r TIL when Luciano Pavarotti suddenly fell ill and was unable to sing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" at the 1998 Grammys, Aretha Franklin filled in for him at “literally a moment’s notice" and sang an acclaimed rendition of the aria
awrrN TIL that the man responsible for inventing leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley Jr, was also accredited for the introduction of the ozone depleting refrigerant Freon. Later in life, Midgley contracted Polio and subsequently died when he was strangled by the very device he designed to get him out of bed.
mXVR TIL that Fleshlight have an R&D department working on realistic prosthetic legs for Elephants injured by landmines in Thailand.
WOvA TIL one of the aqueducts that provides half of New York Citys water leaks 35 million gallons a day, enough water to supply nearly half a million people a day. The fix will cost 1.5 BILLION dollars and wont be done until 2021.
d8VEK TIL: Scientology once hand-picked and groomed a young church member to become Tom Cruise's girlfriend.