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TIL that in 2009, 78% of schools in Atlanta altered the answers on elementary students’ state exams to produce higher scores that would bring bonuses to administration, leading to criminal racketeering convictions.

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dGgB TIL Italian footballer Mario Balotelli was asked by a reporter why he refused to celebrate his goals. He responded: “Because I’m only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?”
xVZOD TIL: The Causes Behind the World becoming more Destabilised, has little to do with Race but alot to do with Bad Business.
8aMAZ TIL during WWI all Army recruits underwent intelligence testing, the largest mass testing that had ever been attempted before. By the end of the war, close to 2 million soldiers had been tested. As a result of the tests roughly half of the recruits were classified at or below the level of "moron"
VQnm TIL that in 1983 Ronald Reagan said “There are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for, you jump off the cliff with the flag flying…I believe half a loaf is better than none and that…you’re not going to always get everything you want.”
16gnd TIL that there is only one case of suicide via radiation poisoning in the US.