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TIL that Francis Galton made a ranking system of UK women and how appealing he found them, with those from Aberdeen deemed the least attractive.

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WkJa4 TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was worried Japan would invade Hawaii and seize all the U.S. currency there. As a precaution, the U.S. burned $200 million in cash circulating on the islands, and replaced them with freshly printed bills with “Hawaii” stamped on them.
W76YY TIL that Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, is also the cousin of the late comedian Chris Farley.
R5pm7 TIL the highest coefficient of inbreeding among the Habsburg dynasty was 0.3053 from Maria Antonia of Austria. Her coefficient was higher than that of a child born to a parent and child, or brother and sister.
oRJo7 TIL that for the first-time ever, total off-course golf participation (27.9 million) surpassed on-course participation (25.6 million) in the US in 2022. Off-course participation includes: standalone driving ranges, golf entertainment sites (Topgolf etc) & businesses w/ simulators or screen set-ups.
8jYP TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”