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TIL about Richard Lynn, a psychologist that produced various controversial studies that attempted to map IQ levels based on race. He believes that some races are more inherently psychopathic than others. Critics have labelled him as the face of scientific racism.

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JNOB TIL the more likely a man can grow a beard, the greater the risk he will go bald.
awXQb TIL that men produce a higher percentage of motile sperm in their ejaculates after viewing sexually explicit images of two men and one woman (a sperm competition risk) than after viewing sexually explicit images of three women, likely indicating a response to an active risk of sperm competition.
b9MZN TIL about Susan Sweney; a British pro-Nazi broadcaster in WWII, born in India. She was a Fascist, rumored Lesbian, and severe alcoholic. She survived two shipwrecks during WWII and was imprisoned by both Germany and Britain. Years later, she worked on a farm, and a pet shop in England.
xV50w TIL Italy fined Apple and Samsung €10m and €3m respectively for releasing software updates which deliberately slowed down their phones, thus encouraging new purchases
VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.