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TIL how schools are making kids dumb.

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BradW TIL the United States has five times more heliports than any other country, and about as many heliports as every other country in the world combined
5YXPQ TIL of the McNamara fallacy: choosing whether or not to do something solely based on statistics, and ignoring non-quantifiable confounding factors. It is named for US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's assumption that a greater personnel count would have lead the US to victory against Vietnam.
0wDDv TIL Raul Julia or 'Gomez' from Addams Family (1991) was visibly ill with stomach cancer on set of the sequel. He died less than a year later.
oR8WL TIL: Malaysia uses aerial loggers lowered from balloons
4kD86 TIL that Aldabra, a coral atoll in the Seychelles, has the biggest population of giant tortoises in the world, at 100,000.