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TIL Boys in the top third in terms of IQ are about 50 per cent more likely than the bottom third to have use drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy when older

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v1ZoK TIL the war game "The Campaign for North Africa" is infamous for absurd it's depth and complexity, where campaigns take and estimated 1500 hours to complete and Italian troops require more water per turn that other troops in order to boil their rationed pasta.
4X79a TIL Winston Churchill, a notorious drinker, circumvented prohibition while visiting the U.S. by obtaining a letter from his doctor prescribing alcohol for treatment following a vehicular accident.
xVYdk TIL that Germans are low in cultural context: individualism, alienation, estrangement from other people, little body contact, and low sensitivity to nonverbal cues. By contrast, the French are high context: closely knit groups, sensitive to nonverbal cues, and engage in high amounts of body contact.
JYlQQ TIL in this BBC video that ibex can climb dam walls.
jNJvj TIL that the inventor of the Popsicle was just an 11-year old kid.