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TIL living in poverty causes a reduction in cognitive ability due to mental and emotional strain equivalent to losing 13 IQ points

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QNEdL TIL that Harriet Tubman believed John Brown did more for the black Americans than Abraham Lincoln did.
lxWB TIL that the phrase “under God” wasn’t part of the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, and that its adoption was largely due to pressure from the Knights of Colombus
rebw TIL if Forrest Gump had kept his Apple investment from the end of the film he would now be worth well over $7 billion.
emrn TIL that Bike Helmet Law was defeated in Denmark partly because “the overwhelming evidence is that enforced helmet laws lead to very much less cycling, particularly for utility journeys and amongst young people.”
JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.