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TIL that playing board games with children can raise their IQ. For 60 minutes a day, twice per week, researchers played logic games (like Qwirkle) with 7- to 9-year old children. Eight weeks later, the children increased their IQ test scores by 10 points on average.

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bOn9 TIL Jeff Baxter, guitarist for Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers is now a U.S. defense consultant and anti-terrorism expert.
JYPB8 TIL that 6 out 7 women Hitler dated in his adult life died by sucicide or attempted suicide. BONUS: Hitler would carry a whip around in an attempt to "impress" women as well.
oGPo TIL In 2003, Matt White, a minor league pitcher, purchased a parcel of land from his elderly aunt for $50,000. The land, he later discovered, contained a rock quarry of Goshen stone - a substance commonly used in sidewalks - with a market value of over $2 billion.
0w6PN TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
E1pA0 TIL of chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia in which individuals perceive colour in addition to normal auditory sensations. Associations are idiosyncratic but consistent over time, studies found. Bernstein and Liszt are associated with the condition; the latter asking his orchestra to play 'bluer'.