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TIL Drew Barrymore was originally going to play the lead character in the 1996 movie Scream

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KOwZw TIL a man in Argentina bought several toy poodles only to discover that they were actually ferrets on steroids.
wLkK6 TIL that Reginald Dwayne Betts spent 8 years in prison as a result of carjacking when he was 16 after getting out of prison he became one of the rare convicted felons to get a law degree from Yale and passed the Connecticut bar exam in September 2017.
7MQr TIL that, in China, there are hundreds of primary schools that are sponsored by tobacco firms, and they have such slogans as “Talent comes from hard work – Tobacco helps you become talented.”
mWaE TIL that the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another is called the “Cheerios Effect”
vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.