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TIL People with high IQs tend to appreciate dark humor more.
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TIL that mama and papa are almost universal for mother/father. But believed to be a coincidence due to language acquisition.
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TIL that firing squads would always have one gun shooting a blank. This ensures that no one in the group is able to know for sure which of them fired the fatal round, deterring some of the guilt.
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TIL that "dry lightning" and "heat lightning" are myths. They are actually just extremely distant thunderstorms.
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TIL that the name of the band Cage The Elephant came after an incident where a mentally disturbed man approached them after a show, hugged the lead singer Matt Shultz and kept repeating the sentence 'You have to cage the elephant'.
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TIL: The Ford Thunderbird is named after a legendary creature from Native American mythology. A massive eagle that would eat cows and people.