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TIL there is a correlation to long life spans and intelligence, and it is just as strong as the correlation between smoking and early death

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BrlXb TIL two girls, an 11 year old and a 12 year old, brought kitchen knives, pocket knives, and a pizza cutter to school in order to "sacrifice" classmates and get closer to Satan.
5gdD TIL 21 years before L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series, he read a disaster report of a tornado in Irving, Kansas, in May 1879 which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was “found buried face down in a mud puddle.”
yVv4a Today I learned about the Oh-My-God particle: an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.
1aGoO TIL of the German word erklärungsnot which means explanation poverty. This describes a situation where you are put on the spot without a sufficient explanation or excuse for something you have done or failed to do.
jv5N TIL that after a dueling, it’s common for two male giraffes to have sex with eachother. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling