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TIL that police can reject police officers that score too high in IQ claiming that “those who scored too high could get bored with police work”.

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pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
0Kv5 TIL that 50% of health care spending is used to treat just 5% of the population.
BPEK TIL In the book of “The princess bride” there’s a missing chapter called “the reconciliation” William Goldman (the author) wrote that if you wanted to read it you had to send a letter to the publisher house, and they would mailed it to you
woOyJ TIL: Scientists discovered that the venom of the Latrodectus mactans variety of black widow spiders killed children and the elderly, but among young men it caused prolonged erections and involuntary ejaculations. Researchers have been studying the venom for use in male virility pills.
QJ41a TIL Female Dragonflies will fake their own deaths in order to avoid sexual advances from unwanted males.