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TIL A segment of DNA called DUF1220 was recently discovered to affect intelligence. The findings show that an increase of this protein leads to a higher IQ, but in excess, severe autism symptoms were present.

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b4wZ TIL that scientists created a “quantum gas” that reached temperatures below absolute zero in which it exhibits characteristics similar to dark energy.
wb7J TIL The cast of Office Space reunited in 2009 for the 10th anniversary of the film and destroyed a printer on the sidewalk of the Paramount Theatre
gwPL TIL There was a real team of Jewish assassins called “The Avengers" who tracked down and executed Nazi war criminals after WWII.
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x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.