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TIL that Smarter women are less likely to have kids, maternal urges drop by 25% with every extra 15 IQ points.

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P1aDw TIL that filmmaker Preston Sturges died of a heart attack in the middle of writing his autobiography. He had planned to title his autobiography "The Events Leading Up to My Death".
XEErD TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims
JObm TIL that Yhprum’s Law, which is the ananym of Murphy’s Law, states that “Everything, that can work, will work.” In other words, “Sometimes systems that should not work, work nevertheless.”
woLjP TIL in 1990, 2 thieves dressed as policemen stole the only Rembrandt seascape painting in existence in one of the most expensive art heists ever. The case remains unsolved today.
VM1wD TIL of early French socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) who believed in the future, under his system people would grow tails and live 144 years, as well as there being "anti-lions", which would be friendly and pacifistic.