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TIL That IQ can decrease by an average of 13% when people are more stressed

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loD6A TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix
yVbA8 TIL (from an Iggy Pop podcast) that Alan Hale Jr. who played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island went on to open a seafood restaurant and later an agency to book sightseeing cruises.
9wvoD TIL The concept of using human shields as a weapon of resistance was created by Mahatma Gandhi
MQDa TIL that the first school massacre in the US took place in Pennsylvania in 1764.
Exro TIL (from QI) a chicken, Mike, lived for a year and a half without his head.