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TIL the IQ classification scale in 1928 included the phrases ‘Moron’ (50-74), ‘Imbeciles’ (25-49) and ‘Idiots’ (0-24). So calling someone an idiot is actually pretty insulting.

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Vwx0 TIL a 15 year old high school student discovered a new method of diagnosing cancer through Open Access resources. This method is 168 times faster, 26000 times cheaper, and 400 times more sensitive, with a success rate of 90%
8aPZa TIL Jimmy Fallon owns the rights to the Olive Garden slogan “When You’re Here, You’re Family.” A licensing agreement was reached when the restaurant decided to retire the slogan, which allows Fallon to use it on his show.
1apPW TIL that in 1973, Marcus Foster, the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, was murdered by the Symbionese Liberation Army, because they believed he supported the plan to create a student identification card system that would help keep non-student drug-dealers off campus.
J1JZ8 TIL On Jan. 30, 1607, the water levels in the Bristol Channel in the UK suddenly rose to more than 25 feet above sea level. Water flooded towns and villages along the coast in England and Wales, causing an estimated 2000 deaths and thousands of animals drowned and farm fields of above 200sqmi ruined
D1N9p TIL that Samurai in Japan had the right to execute commoners who paid them disrespect. This right continued until the 1870s, when the Samurai were abolished, as Japan modernized its military into a national fighting force modeled on Western standards.