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TIL Human Intelligence is Declining. IQ Scores Are Now Decreasing With Each New Generation

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bba TIL that in 2008, an Elmo doll bought for a boy named James began saying “Kill James” after the batteries were changed.
jDDv TIL Robert Recorde invented the symbol ’=’ in 1557 to avoid having to write “is equal to” over and over again.
xYwD TIL the gold discovery in California that led to the Gold Rush happened in January 1848. The miners were ‘49ers and not '48ers because it took so long for the news to spread widely.
x6rjo TIL that Gambling on who the next pope will be is one of the very few things explicitly punishable by excommunication.
0wXop TIL the tallest living tree in the world is a redwood, named Hyperion, located in a secret and remote area of the Redwood National and State Parks. Measured at 155.5 m (379.1 ft) tall, it stands taller than Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty!