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TIL: The odds of flipping a coin is actually 51/49. The odds of spinning a US penny is actually 80/20.

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N74ye TIL that Carl C. Brigham, a eugenist, used an intelligence test to determine the intellect of recruits for WW1. He concluded that the mixing of races is what was leading to the downfall of American education. He later adapted the test for higher education and it is now known as the SAT.
7rKeL TIL scientists estimate that around 40% of people's first memory is fictional.
b9mgE TIL Angus Barbieri fasted for 382 straight days and lost a total of 276 lbs
BYrW TIL Orson Wells’s office was secretly bugged. Orson acknowledged the room was bugged and would greet the room upon arrival and farewell upon leaving as if he was on a radio show. “This is Orson Wells signing off.”
dD4E8 TIL the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE was so hot it turned one victim’s brain into glass