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TIL Engineers are three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.

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npBB TIL that Japan has a legend that Jesus did not die on the cross, but traded places with someone else. He ran from the authorities and fled to Japan. Upon arrival, Jesus raised a family and earned the reputation as a “long-nosed goblin.”
WmjL TIL Warren in Deathproof was right, the color chartreuse was named after the color of the liquor Chartreuse
X0eyD TIL The head of the Gestapo during WW2, Heinrich Muller, was never found. Multiple conflicting stories about his death or survival exist, and he's one of the highest ranking 'missing' Nazis.
xD7B TIL That the developing daughter of a pregnant aphid will already be pregnant with another daughter inside her, this is termed telescoping generations.