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TIL Scientists and mathematicians test higher on autism spectrum

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woXm7 TIL of the Brumadinho Tailings dam (toxic sludge created as a byproduct of Iron mining) collapse, the company that owned this mine owned another mine where they had another Tailings dam collapse causing major loss of life.
GJNg TIL Lockheed Skunkworks is working on SR-72, the successor to the legendary SR-71, with a speed of Mach 6 and powered by a radical new engine which combines the features of a turbine and a scramjet.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
mxwxy TIL Ty Burrell‘s (Phil Dunphy from Modern Family) Great-great Grandmother was mulatto child of a slave owner and a thirteen year old slave
X0mKr TIL that the father of Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat and Fugazi singer) was in the presidential motorcade when JFK was assassinated