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TIL 12-14% of people are thought to have borderline intellectual function, somewhere between disabled and average.

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D1P7p TIL in 1974, a lawyer wrote to the Cleveland Browns threatening to sue if their fans kept throwing paper airplanes at games, and got the reply 'Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.'
78Ynp TIL that Dia de los Muertos, despite popular associations with pre-colonial Aztec culture, may have been almost entirely invented in the 1900s by Mexican nationalists
BrYND Today I learned Y2K was never an issue because people spent years and over $100 billion USD to keep disaster from happening.
8aWXb A boeing 747-400 type airplane with 6 million parts, 71 meters long, 64 meters wingspan and 270 kilometers of cable, weighs approximately 185,000 kilograms, of which approximately 75,000 kilograms is aluminum.
R5YQ TIL Incans in Peru would purposely deform infant heads to stretch their skulls out permanently; the nobility would have significantly longer skulls than everyone else.