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TIL Daryl Hall has a restraining order against John Oates

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Kj4G TIL a DEA agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while giving a lecture on gun safety and claiming that “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to handle this glock 40”
9YyL6 TIL That the inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, did not created it with the intention of measuring intelligence. Instead, his intention was to classify the "mental age" of kids and indetify the ones that weren't developing themselves well in school and sort of "rescue" them
E0NP TIL Texas oil tycoon Jim West used to throw handfuls of silver dollars around just to see people scramble for them.
6E7gQ TIL: About 95% of serotonin is produced in the gastrointestinal tract which is lined with a hundred million nerve cells, or neurons, that are influenced by bacteria. The inner workings of the digestive system don’t just help digest food, but also guide moods and emotions.
5W0Q TIL that after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. fired missiles at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, suspecting that it was related to Al-Qaeda. The following medicine shortage led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths.