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TIL that a study conducted by a Swiss university showed that stockbrokers are more reckless and manipulative than diagnosed psychopaths.

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nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
GAGLj TIL the most common misconception about Yellowstone is that it’s overdue for an eruption, as stated by Michael Poland, the current scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), the research consortium that monitors the volcano.
E1K8o TIL of a simian crease, it’s a single crease that goes across the hand where as most people have two or three, very few people have a simian crease.
BjBx TIL the Arctic Shrew is so territorial that if two are placed together, one will drop dead within a few days, even without physical injuries.
W7j8B TIL that the “longest flight” lasted for 64 days. It was called the Hacienda, and it was possible because of constant refueling