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TIL Science explaining role of luck in success ( veritasium).

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8e4wX TIL that 706 (now north Georgia) and 905 (now outside Toronto) were area codes for Mexico until 1991.
ErPP TIL the United States government is largely responsible for America’s obesity, by supporting corn and soy overproduction, making processed foods derived from those products the only ones affordable for poor americans.
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
Ooyeg TIL about Pierre Andre Latreille, a French entomologist who was meant to be executed during the French revolution, but was released after discovering a rare beetle species (Necrobia ruficollis) in his prison cell.
wEy8 TIL South Carolina used to sterilize women as a condition of receiving welfare.