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TIL that people with low IQ’s are more likely to reproduce than those with high IQ’s.

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Kxj9 TIL the 1977 New York City blackout resulted in numerous looters stealing DJ equipment from electronics stores, resulting in the hip hop genre, barely known outside the Bronx at the time, which grew at an astounding rate from 1977 onward.
j6Pnp TIL: The massive, multinational tableware company Oneida started in 1848 as a sex cult that invented the term "free love" and featured, among other things, middle-aged women acting as sexual mentors to adolescent boys and a focus on men withholding their orgasm during intercourse (coitus reservatus)
mrNM TIL that in 1955, a Sears ad accidentally printed a wrong number for their “Santa hotline”. The number rang up a secret military phone at NORAD, meant to be used in case of a Russian attack. Children called the hotline asking for Santa Claus, and the NORAD Santa Tracker was born.
EgQjp TIL that the world's smallest production car, the Peel P50 only 50 were made and 27 are now left. The last one sold for $176,000 in 2016. Made in 1963 and retailed for £199 (around $8,500 in 2019 money)
4XjZa TIL in 2011 Actor Steven Seagal drove a tank through a house in Arizona while looking for a cock-fighting ring, allegedly killing a puppy and 100 chickens. He said he did it because he was an animal lover.