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TIL that students with the highest GPAs score lowest on measures of creativity and independence, and highest on measures of punctuality, delay of gratification, predictability and dependability.

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gr77D TIL Stone Age Europeans may have practiced human sacrifice, including live burial under houses…
9wJbm TIL that blood donation was segregated in USA, and initially excluded African-American donors. It was not until 1950 that the Red Cross stopped requiring the segregation of so-called N. blood. And it was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that Southern states overturned similar requirements
BrRGK TIL that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was an ad slogan invented in the 19th century by Seventh Day Adventists James Caleb Jackson and John Harvey Kellogg to sell their newly invented breakfast cereal.
5Ln9 TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.
1awOW TIL of Bob Jones University - a Protestant college in Greenville, SC that lost its tax-exempt status due to racial discrimination, and chose to pay millions in taxes rather than change its policies regarding interracial dating.