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TIL that police can refuse to interview job applicants if they score too high on an intelligence test

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n8od TIL that prior to 1993 the FDA banned women from participating in clinical trials. This resulted in a dangerous lack of awareness about how certain drugs impacted women and has led to misunderstandings about how certain diseases affect men and women differently that persist today.
4XrPa TIL that a material's melting point is the same as its freezing point. These are just different terms for the same thing, it just depends on whether energy is being removed from a substance (freezing) or if energy is being added to a substance (melting).
yjBe TIL early humans literally ran their prey to death
A1Qd TIL Lucille Ball’s production company, Desilu, produced the original Star Trek TV series, and Lucy herself approved the development of the Star Trek concept into a series
4XlQw TIL the twitter bird is named Larry. It was named after NBA legend Larry Bird. Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone, is a Boston native.