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

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9wd0B TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher
6xwZ TIL that despite their looks, falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks and eagles.
6gNZ TIL 45% of US homes are now equipped with DVRs (and the TV industry is, naturally, having to change how it operates)
RWM8 TIL that the Taipei 101 skyscraper uses a 728 ton steel tuned mass damper (basically a giant pendulum) to counter motion of the building since it is so close to a fault line.
7r7jr TIL a study done in 2020 found Americans are the unhappiest they have been in nearly 50 years. Only 14% of American adults say they're happy, down from 31% in 2018.