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TIL that the terms Idiot, Imbecile and Moron are all medical definitions for people with certain IQ ranges. Idiot ranges from 0-20, Imbecile 21-50 and Moron 51-70.

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OGoPa TIL Andrew Carnegie offered the Filipino people $20 million to buy their independence from the US, but nothing came of the offer
L1jr TIL after Rasputin was murdered, a group of people dug up his remains & burned them. As the body was being burned, Rasputin appeared to sit up in the flames, terrifying onlookers. This effect can be attributed to the heat, which caused his tendons to shrink, forcing the body to bend at the waist.
jNjgp TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.
woNo TIL that a Man-O’-War is neither a jellyfish nor a single creature. It is a colonial organism made up of small creatures called zooids.
xVKr1 TIL about Clive Wearing, a former conductor and musician who suffers from chronic anterograde and retrograde due to a virus fever in 1985. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall past memories. He lives life believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state.