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TIL 4 year old kids ask up to 400 questions in one day!

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Nwl1 TIL that the country with the lowest average IQ is Equatorial Guinea, with an average of 59.
8avdP TIL that poison control was started by one Chicago pharmacist that started keeping notes on new cleaning products when people came into the ER and started taking calls at home 24/7
PdkJ TIL adult adoption rates in Japan are high so that companies can carry on a particular family name, even if the next generation isn’t up to the task of running a successful business.
PYagG TIL of the Harvard Jail House, which was put on sale by accident. Robert Pinckney bought the jailhouse for $1.50 and successfully sued the town for rent when they continued putting criminals in there. He then sold the place to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist’s dummy, for $10,000 in war bonds.
eNEb TIL in China, 97% of all counterfeit bills in circulation originate from the templates hand-drawn by 73-year-old painter Peng Daxiang. Peng profited by selling templates between $8000 and $12,000 each to counterfeiting gangs. Peng was arrested in 2013 & is currently serving a life sentence in prison