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

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KOAnG TIL Inattentional deafness is when someone is concentrating on a visual task like reading, playing games, or watching television and are unresponsive to you talking, they aren't ignoring you necessarily, they may not be hearing you at all.
6aEJ TIL that a first class ticket on the Titanic cost $4,350 in 1912 which would be approximately $106,200 per person in today’s dollars
lkVN TIL James Cameron took good friend Guillermo del Toro to a bank and withdrew $1 million in cash to pay the ransom for the safe return of his kidnapped father
ep9J TIL that over 99% of the electricity produced in Norway is renewable and clean
mxPE TIL the Catholic Church requires that a person always follow their conscience, even when it is in disagreement with Church teaching