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TIL: On average, women outnumber men in college 3 to 2.

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78kKr TIL about the Judas Goat Technique. Judas goats are captured, sterilised, radio-collared and then re-released to associate with and reveal the location of other feral goats in the area, sparing their own lives in the process.
0wZgN IBM has created a computer smaller than a grain of salt and it has the computing power of the x86 chip from 1990.
EgOAX TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve
VjV4 TIL we can predict spontaneous decisions ~7.5 seconds before people become consciously aware of them.
xVdko TIL researchers have found that the brain’s frontal cortex not only controls vision; it leaves out things in plain sight. Although the eye's vision appear like a camera, in actuality, it is actively constructing a visual scene and making decisions about it.