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TIL Mensa membership benefits include discounts at Dell, Geico, Nationwide Pet Insurance, HP among others

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GYaGg TIL when Winston Churchill started to use the V for Victory hand sign, he initially did so with the palm facing inward, unaware this was an offensive gesture in lower classes. He was basically flipping people off.
6lYY TIL “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s first wrestling persona was named “The Spider” and resembled Spider-Man. He would later square off against Spider-Man in the 2002 film.
e0p84 TIL The US did not have only two atomic bombs in WWII. They had a third ready to drop on Japan on August 19th that was halted by the surrender. Three to four more bombs were slated to be produced every month in support of a US invasion if Japan did not capitulate.
awYeA TIL that Diogenes "the Cynic" of Sinope, a controversial Greek philosopher, responded to Zeno's paradoxes on the impossibility of physical motion by getting up and walking away.
woO51 TIL that before trees took over, the earth was populated by a giant species of fungus called Prototaxites, which could grow up to 24 feet or 8 metres.