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TIL that Nepal has the lowest average IQ of any country with 42.99 IQ with Liberia and Sierra Leone following close by at 45.07.

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VP98 TIL that Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy
4XKXg TIL that film director Akira Kurosawa hired expert archers to shoot real arrows at Toshiro Mifune while he dodged them in choreographed movements. Mifune’s visible terror is quite real.
bJ6Z TIL that New Belgium Brewing company (makers of Fat Tire, Blue Paddle, etc) will only ship their beers cold, but since it is illegal in Oklahoma and Utah liquor stores to sell cold full-percentage beer (+3.2%), New Belgium refuses to distribute its product there.
WkpMB TIL of blindsight, where a cortically blind person can't consciously see but still has visual information subconsciously processed. Such a person may avoid an obstacle in their field of view but not know why they did so.
gMJXW TIL in 1911, a House Member introduced a resolution to abolish the Senate because it "has become an obstructive and useless body, a menace to the liberties of the people, and an obstacle to social growth;" His proposal died silently in committee.