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TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk

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VMG5B TIL the coconut is classified as a drupe, or a dry drupe. Under loose definitions, coconut can also be considered a fruit, a nut, and a seed.
pKrp TIL Michael Crichton had an MD from Harvard, although he never obtained a license to practice medicine. He also believed patients too often shunned responsibility for their own health, relying on doctors as miracle workers rather than advisors.
6EGZ8 TIL about ‘White Nose Syndrome’, a disease that causes a white fungus to appear on the noses of north American bats, eventually leading to their deaths. 5.7 million bats have died since it’s discovery in 2006.
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
oBWXY TIL smartwatches measures blood preassure by emitting light to the skin and reading how much light is reflected back; as the heart pumps blood, it causes a variation in blood volume on the skin and can be detected by change in light absorption, a not-so-new technology called photoplethysmogram.