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TIL The Flynn Effect reveals that human intelligence increases with each generation

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gMMw4 TIL future U.S. President Grover Cleveland personally hanged two people (in 1872 and 1873) while serving as Sheriff of Erie County, New York.
VM7Qk TIL that Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent. According to a Russian diplomat, "Lenin said that his tutor in English was an Irishman and that was why he was speaking with an Irish accent."
epajJ TIL John von Neumann was the first to use the term "singularity" to refer to a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Many academics dispute the plausability of a singularity.
6JrJ TIL that British Columbia woodsman Francis Wharton shot a deer in the late 1960s but had no serviceable teeth with which to eat it so he fashioned dentures out of the deer’s own teeth and ate it.
D1YNp TIL that the Romans staged a mock Naval Battle in the Colosseum by flooding it.