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TIL that the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the most hyperactive and damaging in the satellite era.

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d8and TIL In the longest-running study of gifted children ever, scientists followed 5,000 kids who tested in the top one percent of intelligence for over four decades. It suggests that early cognitive intelligence has more effect on success than deliberate practice or outside factors
74np TIL that there’s a museum called “Chinsekikan” in Japan that contains nothing but rocks that look like faces. Chinsekikan means “Hall of curious rocks” in English
9w5Rr TIL that in Spain, there is only one town whose name begins with the letter W, being the town of Wamba (Vamba), named in honor of the Gothic king of the same name postumatically.
kO45e TIL Ben Affleck is banned for life from playing Blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas after being caught counting cards.
5EM9 TIL 2,4-dinitrophenol, a widely used chemical in industry, is also a powerful weight loss agent with severe side effects. In some people, it can burn food energy so fast that their body isn’t able to expel the heat quickly enough, thus causing them to die by literally burning from the inside out.