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TIL Awarding people money for doing well in IQ tests causes them to score better, $10 increased people’s score by 20 IQ points. IQ tests don’t just measure intelligence they also measure effort.

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AXmn TIL that the creator of the original Godzilla, Eiji Tsuburaya, was a propaganda filmmaker for the Japanese Imperial Government. His special effects were so realistic that U.S. occupation forces mistook his film about Pearl Harbor as actual footage and used it in documentaries about the attack.
gr817 TIL that Daddy Long Legs should be notable not for their dangerous venom (an urban legend) but for having evolved what is likely the world's first penis. [Details in comments]
Eg4W TIL that there is a Hadith in Islam that states “the ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr”.
rNy71 TIL there is a species of lizard that removes Lyme disease in ticks. A protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick's gut responsible for the disease.
8ebGb TIL the Russian radio telescope RT-70 transmitted a series of 501 messages to the exoplanet Gliese 581c in an attempt to contact an extraterrestrial species. The messages will arrive in 2029.