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TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student's GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%.

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X0VLj TIL that Gregg Ernst backlifted 2422 kg (approximately 5,340 lbs.) of two cars on a platform to set the world record for live weight backlifting in July 1993. This record still stands today
nWlP9 TIL about Victor “Al” Pease, who remains the only driver in Formula 1 history to have been disqualified from a race for driving too slow.
W6vY TIL That according to Jayne Gackenbach,a psychologist, people who frequently play video games are more likely than non-gamers to have lucid dreams where they view themselves from outside their bodies;they were also better able to influence their dream worlds,as if controlling a video-game character.
M6AK TIL the Kargil war in 1999 between India and Pakistan is the only war ever between two countries where both have weapons of mass destruction.
ADPkx TIL that in 2038, we will have another Y2K-style software issue with dates, as 32 bit software can't represent time past Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond that will be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as Friday, 13 December 1901