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TIL World’s second smartest man has IQ of 192 and has and spent many years as a bar bouncer, stripper and nude model.

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JdRj TIL when Mark Wahlberg was 16, “he was charged with attempted murder for beating a Vietnamese refugee with a metal hook, leaving the victim blind. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but served just 45 days.”
wL5pW TIL that in 2013 Mark Zuckerberg spent $30 million buying 4 neighboring houses to ensure his privacy
BBZb TIL that Yuma, Arizona is the sunniest place in the United States and one of the sunniest in the world.
YpJNd TIL that bilinguals experience tip-of-the-tongue moments twice as often as monolinguals. Processing two languages at the same time comes with a computational cost. Although, this kind of “multitasking” trains the brain.
D1Agj TIL Japanese train drivers and conductors "point and call" at all important signs and warnings. As it turns out, research conducted in 1994 by the Railway Technical Research Institute found that the combination of pointing and calling reduced mistakes by almost 85 percent.