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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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KYO8J TIL that it is 100% legal to leave/abandon your baby at a firestation in the USA due to safe haven laws.
ZpMba TIL that scientists trying to study birds in Australia fitted them with tracking harnesses, and the birds helped each other take the harnesses off.
dDew7 TIL about the Region-Beta Paradox, the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones.
O1P7 TIL that psychiatrist Elliott Barker treated psychopaths by locking them in a room for 11 days while naked, tied together, and high on LSD. The result was a 20% increase of psychopathic tendencies because, according to one inmate, it only taught them how to better mask their true emotions.
XyRr TIL in 1960 the Mercury-Redstone 1 rocket blasted off and reached an apogee (height) of 4 inches. The rocket also settled back on the launch pad, undamaged, without tipping over.