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TIL that, despite media portrayals to the contrary, young adults tend to make highly rational decisions when it comes to selecting potential romantic partners

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a4kM TIL that during his execution by firing squad, Marshal Ney of France was permitted to give the order to fire himself.
p8XPp TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was under the supervision of a manipulative psychologist, Eugene Landy, who controlled every aspect of his life for 9 years during the ‘80s and early ‘90s. Landy exerted his power over Wilson in many different ways, including making him eat spaghetti off the floor.
yQ5rp TIL Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is toxic to snakes. Dead mice laced with the drug are air dropped in Guam’s jungles in order to control invasive brown tree snake populations.
D1ZND TIL Buster Keaton's famous stunt when a building facade collapses on him, with an open window fitting perfectly around his body, used no trickery. The facade weighed two tonnes, and the mark on the ground telling him exactly where to stand to avoid being crushed was a nail.
J16Zv TIL Aldous Huxley was tripping on acid when he died