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

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n9Kr TIL that a woman faced fraud charges after a DNA test showed she wasn’t the mother of her own children. She was in fact a chimera.
D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.
OxB4 TIL the Cinderella Castle (189 ft) and Tower of Terror (199 ft) at Disney World (Orlando, FL, USA) are intentionally under 200 feet (61 m) tall to avoid regulations that would require it to have flashing aircraft warning lights at the top.
Ka4 TIL The Beatles were originally supposed to voice the vultures in The Jungle Book
v1m6R TIL OF Charles MCGEE a retired American fighter pilot who saw combat missions in World War II, Korean War, & Vietnam making him one of the longest active duty air force pilots in history(spanning 30 years). He is also one of the last living tuskegee airmen