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TIL Tony Hawk was tested to have an I.Q. of 144 during school.

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R5ar4 TIL 18% of adults with asthma smoke, compared to 13.6% of adults without asthma
m1vdo TIL that the last person executed by the Spanish Inquisition was Cayetano Ripoll, who was hanged in 1826 for teaching deist principles
JYdWB TIL about Zeal Akairaiwai, the Nigerian man who pays medical bills for fellow Nigerians that cannot afford to do it. He does that every week and had saved countless lives so far. As he said: "Be the angel you hope to meet".
Lkg9r TIL that supposedly the Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill Sonata) was made by Giuseppe Tartini in an attempt to recreate a song the Devil had played to him in a dream.
JYAwm TIL all the gold ever mined in human history is smaller than the statue of liberty.