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TIL Isaac Asimov was a long-time member and vice president of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as “brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs”.

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Y1bA TIL In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed… A cache of some 20,000 documents survived, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977.
9Y1DQ TIL The house were Lincoln’s assassination was planned is now a Chinese restaurant
VBkBD TIL the White Lion brought African indentured servants to what became the USA a year before the mayflower.
N7d4P TIL two nurses, hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor in the same Florida hospital found out that they were actually long-lost sisters from Korea who had been separated for almost 40 years
ow8R TIL: Couples that cuddle can become addicted to one another. Symptoms of withdraw can occur when apart as a result of the hormone oxytocin, “the cuddling drug.”