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TIL that introverted women and extraverted men experience longer-term benefits from marriage.

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XE9AD TIL: Without Face/Off, Martin Scorsese wouldn’t have an Oscar. Andrew Lau was inspired by Face/Off, but wanted a more realistic approach, which led to him making Internal Affairs, the film that Scorsese remade as The Departed and won his first Oscar.
KO6v9 TIL Russian Navy Officer Vasili Arkhipov was credited with being the single vote that prevented a Soviet Nuclear Strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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XJR TIL that 2 billion years ago, a naturally occurring nuclear reactor existed in Gabon, Africa.