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TIL that the country with the lowest average IQ is Equatorial Guinea, with an average of 59.

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m1WRY TIL in order to end the My Lai Massacre, Hugh Thompson Jr. landed his helicopter between civilians and advancing American troops, ordering his own men to fire on any troops that would attack civilians. He was condemned and ostracized by the US military, government, and public.
BrAGW TIL Disney abandoned plans for a park in Virginia. Opposition groups complained it would cause suburban sprawl, create "fast food strips" and invite malls. Today the area is a suburb of million-dollar golf course homes, a mall, and a strips of fast food stores.
R7aB6 TIL: America is home to “Body Farms,” places where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.
69enJ TIL that in 1951, 250 people were poisoned by "cursed bread" made with flour tainted with fungus in a small town in France. 50 people were interned in asylums and there were 7 deaths!