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TIL intelligent people are less likely to have sex

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lob4N TIL the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s have a ‘Flavour Graveyard’ where unpopular ice cream flavours go when they are retired.
pY8xA TIL of the "preparedness paradox" where if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will doubt that the preparation was necessary
4k0Qg TIL a quarter is often referred to as "two bits" unwittingly in reference to pieces of eight used in the golden age of piracy. One Spanish dollar was worth Eight Spanish Reales. Two Reales (or bits) was equal to a quarter of one dollar.
M744a TIL Starting as a joke, a Duke university researcher brought a portable scanning electron microscope into her home. Then the organization realized it wasn't a bad idea as she used it for virtual outreach activities
jej TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.