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TIL The often-quoted low IQ of developing countries is based on bogus and misleading data

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kJaJe TIL that back in the 1940s there was a male-only "Penthouse Club" at the Walt Disney Studios for their top animators, including a rooftop patio where they used to take nude sunbaths. They had to stop when it became known that nuns in the neighboring hospital were peeking at them
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88Xb TIL that if you have a bone marrow transplant, your blood can have the donor’s DNA and your salival and hair DNA will be your own. It has caused people to be wrongly arrested based on DNA evidence.
69b9Q TIL in 2022 an 18-yr-old student, who did genealogical research as a hobby, cracked the unsolved 1964 murder of a 9-yr-old girl in Hazleton, PA. He researched for 18 months & created 50 complete family trees to find a connection to Hazleton which eventually led him to zero in on culprit James Forte