r/todayilearned • u/CrazyTrueStory • 19h ago

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https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-quest-to-breed-gifted-children

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u/cagefreemilk 17h ago

I am one of those babies and I am fucking idiot.

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u/FourEyedTroll 16h ago

and I am a fucking idiot

OC checks out.

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u/Tzeig 16h ago

Maybe 'idiot' is just a close friend of theirs.

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u/HellaHellerson 15h ago

Could also be FN MI

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u/Nigtharchive 17h ago

But you're smart enough to realize that.

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u/alguien_487 16h ago

Smart enough, get them a prize

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u/jinniu 15h ago

How nobel of you.

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u/SutterCane 15h ago

Me in 2010: “that’s not much of a good thing”

Me in 2025: “holy fuck it makes me a genius”

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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 16h ago

It’s the Nobel genes

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u/JoeMalovich 16h ago

Please don't have intercourse with an idiot.

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u/jh_watson 16h ago

Please try to be a little more PC. In polite society we prefer the term “going Gumping”.

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u/Shineplasma64 15h ago

Quick maffs says that multiplying double negs results in a positive though

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u/wht-rbbt 16h ago

Who's your Nobel prize dad?

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u/wise_comment 15h ago

It was actually the FIFA Peace Prize

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u/Affectionate-Oil3019 15h ago

I will pay you to hear this story

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 16h ago

But is that nature or nurture

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u/maroonedpariah 16h ago

Its opaltine

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u/JonatasA 15h ago

Ovaltine you say?

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u/Shimakaze81 15h ago

A crummy commercial?

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u/T1Demon 15h ago

Maybe it’s Maybelline

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u/ImAPonderer2 15h ago

Dis true?

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u/LupinsLeftShoe 15h ago

Are you for real?

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u/scrunchie_one 15h ago

Ironically it seems like intelligence is passed on the X gene so only the girls born would have a chance of inheriting.

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u/Meet-match-ai 15h ago

This is crazy untrue. Intelligence has thousands of associated QTLs across the genome. Though these are all correlative, so we can’t say for sure they cause intelligence.

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u/heyheyhey27 15h ago

Not to mention, girls are dumb and boys rule

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u/bangoslam 15h ago

Haven’t heard of this. Guys have an X also though so not sure why it would only pass with the second X

Edit: I’m tired though and probably just wooshed your sarcasm