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TIL poverty imposes a mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points .

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LJmm TIL that the highest paid state employee in the USA is Nick Saban, the Alabama football team head coach, making $7.09 million a year
EgG6x TIL that due to Woody Harrelson's raw vegan lifestyle, the Twinkies in the movie "Zombieland", in which he plays a character with an affinity for the treat, were replaced with vegan faux-Twinkies made from cornmeal.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
Y770v TIL of Dialysis at Sea Cruises: A cruise specially for kidney failure patients and their family who require regular hemodialysis to survive.
oBJjK TIL of the "3.5% Rule" - Every civil disobedience campaign, in which 3.5% of the population participated, has succeeded