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

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rR0kM TIL the Soviet Union made a Space Shuttle remarkable like the US’s counterpart
a8gpL TIL that a town in New York did not concede the Civil War and rejoin the Union until the 1940s.
M748b TIL that there are ethnic groups in the African Congo Basin that do not have a word for and are confused by the concept of masturbation.
16ZPP TIL that before the first Harry Potter film was released in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. demanded the owners of Harry Potter fansites, including a 15 year old, to hand over their domain names due to copyright protection. This caused negative publicity, which resulted to the studio backing down.
mxYbR TIL in 1925, two medical students received a cadaver and a challenge. In response, they spent 1,500 hours dissecting a human nervous system -- beginning at the base of the brain and working downward -- leaving the system intact in one continuous piece.