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TIL studies suggest that top students are more likely to smoke pot and drink alcohol

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0jyA TIL that Stephen Hawking was badly abused by his second wife, Elaine Mason
xw4b TIL that Chicago Tribune staff accidentally discovered never seen before photos of the steamship Eastland that capsized in 1915 (3 years after Titanic disaster) off the coast of Chicago due to being top heavy and causing the ghastly death of 844 passengers
LQN9P TIL that most states in the USA have an official state fossil, for example the Stegosaurus stenops for Colorado.
rR6w4 TIL Southern California Edison is only now starting to replace bare power lines with insulated power lines in high wildfire risk areas.
LkoBQ TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.