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TIL studies have shown that the achievement gap between blacks and whites on many standardized tests disappears when the subjects are told that the tests do not measure intelligence or IQ.

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VB4ym TIL that after the Bayer pharmaceutical company found new ways to make diacetylmorphine, they marketed it under the trademarked name 'Heroin' and sold over-the-counter as a less addictive version of morphine.
YpQjZ TIL at the age of 14, in 1905, Charles de Gaulle wrote a short story titled "General De Gaulle" in which he imagined himself leading the French Army to victory over Germany "sometime in the 1930s."
VLDp TIL Sahara is only in a dry period and is expected to be green again in 15,000 years.