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TIL that the average IQ is steadily increasing each generation. IQ tests are getting harder and harder to keep the average at 100, and today's kids taking tests from previous decades have an average score of over 100.

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OwJY TIL Judge Clarence Thomas once argued that a burning cross should not enjoy First Amendment protection, saying, “There’s no other purpose to the cross, no communication, no particular message. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population.”
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