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TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”

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Z8QMQ TIL the IQ classification scale in 1928 included the phrases ‘Moron’ (50-74), ‘Imbeciles’ (25-49) and ‘Idiots’ (0-24). So calling someone an idiot is actually pretty insulting.
OG5r4 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
5YMxn TIL that snakes can help predict earthquakes.
grXjy TIL The longest scheduled commercial flight was logged by Air Tahiti Nui in March and April 2020 when it could not land in LAX for refueling due to travel restrictions. The flight from Papeete to Paris covered 9,765 miles, compared to the current longest route between NYC and Singapore (9,537 mi).
Oow86 TIL that in 1961 an aircraft crash nearly set off a nuclear detonation 250x the size of Hiroshima in North Carolina. The only thing that prevented it from going off was a simple low voltage safety switch.