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TIL that kids can hear sounds that adults can't

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nWwyr TIL that when the small town of Delton, Michigan received a foreign exchange student, the host family thought the Austrian boy had exaggerated his size. Bernhard Raimann a) was 6' 6" tall and b) wanted to play American football. He dominated local teams, got a college scholarship, and is in the NFL.
oBgXW TIL about the Lead-crime Hypothesis: Researchers have found that the elimination of leaded gasoline in the US accounted for up to a 56% drop in violent crime rates between 1992 and 2002.
GeZ1 TIL one “Awesome Blossom” appetizer from Chili’s has as much fat as 67 strips of bacon.
Z8KXa TIL that in 2015 the CEO of U-Haul make his personal phone number public so he could hear the questions and concerns of his customers. Apparently he still answers calls!
xVYeD TIL that Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan published a short story using paragraphs automatically generated by AI, based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan