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TIL that Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population.

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41m5 TIL William James Sidis had an IQ that was believed to be between 250 and 300. At eighteen months old he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult he could speak more than forty languages and dialects.
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