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TIL that higher IQ is associated with greater use of illegal drugs and excessive alcohol intake

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P1lmE TIL if an NFL team forfeits, the other team automatically wins 2-0. Those two points are not added to the team's season points that are used for tiebreaker scenarios.
v1m44 TIL of John Frederick Parker, the bodyguard assigned to Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination, not only was he 3 hours late, but he left his post to get a drink at a saloon next door. It was during this that Booth entered the box seats where Lincoln was sitting and shot the president.
Z8mrp TIL of Efunroye Tinubu, a powerful slave trader in 19th century Nigeria. She was thought to have been so unapologetic and profit minded, she attempted to subvert a British anti-slavery treaty and, after a slave trade went wrong, said she: "would rather drown the slaves than sell them at a discount."
X1EP TIL A man raised his arm for 38 years without EVER putting it down.
grVpA TIL trolley refers to trams and not just shopping carts. I had believed for the longest time that the trolley problem referred to shopping carts running over people...