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TIL that children of lower-educated parents more successfully escape from refrigerators than children of higher-educated parents

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XD4P TIL Bill W, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD after being sober for decades and “developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide”
N7BDJ TIL humans were once an endangered species. 1.2 million years ago, at a time when our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe and Asia, there were probably only around 18,500 individuals capable of breeding.
GARng TIL dyslexic World Memory Champion Dominic O’ Brien set a Guinness World Record by memorizing 2808 playing cards (54 packs) after looking at each card only once. He made only 8 errors.
QJ79p TIL between 1929 and 1932 Ford went from selling 1,507,132 cars in a year to selling just 210,824 of them.
gr0QL TIL that the heaviest UK coin made for circulation was the 1797 copper tuppence, coming in at a whopping 57 g, weighing as much as ten American quarters and more than 6.5 times heavier than the modern £1 coin. It was worth the same as two pennies.