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TIL Conan O'Brien are Harvard grad and have the same iq with Stephen Hawking. Which is 160.

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Ld99 TIL In 1939, a five year old girl successfully gave birth and is still alive today
R76xw TIL that the CDC is based in Atlanta because it was started to fight malaria in the South. It did this by spraying homes (inside and outside) with DDT and draining wetlands. Starting in 1946, malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951.
awRbo TIL In Switzerland, local residents have a say in a person's passport application. In 2017, a vegan activist had her application rejected after residents voted against her 'for being annoying'
p8Xdp TIL Over 100 bronze Roman dodecahedrons "from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD" have been unearthed over the past three centuries. No written sources from the period mention these objects, and scholars continue to speculate about their mysterious purpose.
XEKm8 TIL: For journalistic purposes, William Thomas Stead exposed child prostitution and abduction in 1885 by having a thirteen-year-old victim, Eliza Armstrong, "purchased" for £5 and taken to a brothel where she was drugged. He published this later in a series of exposés that shocked readers.