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TIL that skateboarding legend Tony Hawk has an IQ of 144 and was bullied for being a skater in high school.

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6EKbW TIL that a stunt helicopter crash on The Twilight Zone Movie (1984) set killed Vic Morrow and two illegally hired child actors.
4kv55 TIL that the words cannon, cane, candy, canister and canyon probably share the same Sumerian root which means "reed".
j6kAp TIL that AI is set to transform education: What business leaders can learn from this development
7rrGp TIL if Mars' polar ice caps were to melt the entire planet would be covered in 11 meters (36 feet) of water
xVbY5 TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked the publishers of The Kinks' Lola whether songwriter Ray Davies would allow its parody, Yoda, to be released, he got a negative response. However, when Yankovic met Davies five years later, Ray told him that he had never been asked and allowed Al to release Yoda.