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TIL Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses

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9OX TIL that Stephen Hawking thinks it would be a bad idea to talk to aliens
1XNW TIL a hacker was able to recreate the fingerprint of the German Defense Minister from a photograph. This is the same hacker who defeated Apple’s thumbprint verification within 24 hours of the release of the iPhone 5S.
e04x4 TIL that mosquitoes can not only smell what blood type you are, they prefer type O. In fact, people who are type O are twice as likely to be bitten than someone who is type A.
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