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TIL just the stress of being poor is enough to lower someone’s intelligence from average to borderline mentally deficient and reduce their IQ score by 14 points on average.

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rRXYd TIL Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Roger Waters all have declared that John Prine is among their all time favorite song writers. Cash said he listens to Prime when he wants to get into a song writing mood, and Dylan claimed no one could write true to life characters like Prine could.
yQMLv TIL the Rock Hyrax, a small rabbit-like animal, is the closest living relative to elephants.
PYeAJ TIL John DeLorean was arrested by the FBI for conspiring to smuggle $24M worth of cocaine into the US while the DeLorean Motor Co was failing to raise money to survive. Claiming he was coerced into participation in the deal by FBI agents who approached him as legitimate investors, he was acquitted
rRZ7x TIL that Fluffy, a cat, got stuck in a frozen vortex and was caked in ice. She was essentially frozen solid. The vets managed to thaw her out by putting her in a heated kennel and she made a full recovery a day later.
0jxN TIL that we don’t see pure black when we close our eyes, we see a color named Eigengrau and although there are a few theories as to what causes it nobody’s quite sure.