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TIL that academic achievement and cognitive ability have been shown to predict later age of first sexual intercourse

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jNlDn TIL That the drought of 1976-77 aligned harmoniously with the rise of skateboarding. In effort to conserve water, pools were being emptied all throughout Southern California. With that, emerging skaters like Tony Alva, Steve Olson, and the late Jay Adams were jumping fences and skating empty pools.
l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
N7PM8 TIL that a person working in the telecom industry made an AI bot to prank telemarketers that talks to them until they catch on as he was annoyed with telemarketing calls. He created an algorithm that says, "Hello? hello?" to trick the agent to thinking they have reached their target.
6EAWQ TIL claw machine crane games are illegal in Alberta Canada, unless the player is allowed to make repeated attempts (on a single credit) until he or she succeeds in winning a prize
JYgnB TIL on 18 april 1930, the only thing that was announced on BBC was "There is no news" followed by a piano playing