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TIL Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses

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Wkr0o TIL the world will start running out of water by 2050
7BVO TIL that 1 in 4 people in Greenland have attempted suicide, making it the most suicidal country in the world
egML TIL the Chinese government encouraged two basketball players (a 7ft man and 6'3" woman) to marry and produce a child who would become a dominant athlete, that child was Yao Ming
ADVAw TIL: Getting teenage "groopie" nookie is why most musicians get on stage, said the legendary JOHN LENNON of THE BEATLES, "we're not getting on stage to have a card game." (Also, the stage crew gets more "action" than the actual band, due to their social-gatekeeping role.)
nWoPP TIL the inventor of the "pop up" later apologized for his invention after seeing how his creation had been used for pop-up advertising