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TIL "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was written to spread awareness of disappearing Gothic architecture. For this reason, the book contains unnecessarily elaborate passages describing the settings of various scenes

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J8Z4 TIL: When asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers”
D1GXv TIL a viking grave of a woman warrior was dug up, and contrast to the skeletal evidence, it was assumed to be male due to the weapons in the grave. Even after DNA testing proved she was female, claims were then tried to be made that the bones got mixed up.
mxdbM TIL: A study found that subjects who played Portal showed an increase in certain cognitive abilities, whereas subjects who played the "brain training game" Lumosity showed none.
yQpX TIL that two men drove from New York to Los Angeles in only 31 hours, breaking hundreds of traffic laws along the way