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TIL Keeping a balance on your credit card does NOT help build your credit score. Pay your balance off in full, avoid interest/fees, build credit.

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xVZL7 TIL that Camus could have been a professional goalkeeper, but he got diagnosed with tuberculosis and had to switch career, also his Mom was deaf
WjDo TIL it’s impossible to smoothly scan your eyes from left to right (or vice versa), except if you’re tracking a moving object. Otherwise, your vision jumps from focus point to focus point, even while reading.
MegX7 TIL about Mark DeFriest, an autistic savant who was sentenced to 4 years in prison for 'stealing' his father's tools. Able to memorise and reproduce keys by looking at them, he's been imprisoned 36 years for multiple escapes.
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Egol0 TIL that the Golden rule of treating others the way you want to be treated exists among emotionally intelligent primates like chimps and bonobos.