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TIL that it's harder to detect autism in girls because it presents differently

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VOjp TIL: of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one exists today - the Pyramids.
ADZ7o TIL of Dorothy Steel, the 91 yr old who made her big film acting debut as merchant tribal elder, who advises Chadwick Boseman's character in Marvel's "Black Panther." She sent in her audition tape and Marvel exec's said "Who is that old lady? We want her." She began her acting career at 88.
mxO0y TIL Alfred Nobel, of the Nobel Prize lost his brother to an accident at his lab. They were working with liquid nitrogen and attempting to create a more stable explosive. Nobel was able to complete his research after the accident and invented dynamite.
e0mob TIL Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" was never about the meatpacking industry. Sinclair intended it as a "breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit".
9WQX TIL when asked if he knew his IQ, Stephen Hawking responded “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers”