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TIL how schools are making kids dumb.

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nd6r TIL the last individual of a species is called an Endling. When it dies, the species is extinct.
awvKo TIL Flexible glass is a 'legendary' lost invention. Inventor took a flexible glass bowl to Emperor Tiberius Caesar who tried to break it. It dented instead of shattering. Inventor repaired it with a small hammer. Tiberius had the inventor beheaded because it could undermine value of gold and silver.
BrJny TIL that sea snails are the most venomous creatures on earth, and can swallow fish whole.
bQWZ TIL that the first woman to be a candidate for the President of the United States was actually Victoria Woodhull in 1872
7r97X TIL that America's largest industry is still manufacturing, making double what it did 3 decades ago, but it employs a third as much.