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TIL - Personality has a larger effect on success than IQ.

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pYWW8 TIL that Pompeii Bodies are POP casts around the skeleton and Not the Actual Mummified Bodies preserved as it is due to eruption
gr54b TIL in the Siege of Leningrad, Nobel laureate economist and mathematician Leonid Kantorovich calculated an optimal distance between cars on the Road of Life based on temperature and ice thickness to ensure they didn't sink into Lake Ladoga. He walked between cars on the lake to ensure they complied.
ANdNa Today i learned that bats aren't actually blind 💀
YXAA TIL Robert Kennedy posed for JFK’s Presidential Portrait
YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”