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TIL that intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more

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yV5VJ TIL that the CIA hired a magician named John Mulholland in the 1950s to write a "magic book" for spies. The manual explained how spies could use skills like sleight of hand to poison an enemy's drink, or to steal documents. Mulholland was also employed by the CIA to explore paranormal activities.
mxMlY TIL Marie Curie's annex lab in Arcueil is sometimes called Chernobyl on the Seine. The lab closed in 1978 but radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and there are traces of a uranium isotope at the Curie annex with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. The cleanup has so far cost about €10 million.
Q0YM TIL According to the FBI - Crime Among African-American Youth Is At Its Lowest Point in History and Continues to Drop.
7AQL TIL There was a girl who ate almost nothing besides chicken nuggets since she was 2.
aYOo TIL that China goes through 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year. 20 million trees are cut every year to meet Chinese demand for chopsticks.