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TIL one in five men between the ages of 25 and 34 are living with their parents.

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wLrQP TIL that a social experiment was conducted where wallets were left in 20 cities to see if the people there were honest enough to return them. Only in Denmark and Norway were they all returned.
0dorM TIL From 1868 until 1913 in the US, 90% of all federal revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine, and tobacco.
NjRE TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled it to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewed back on
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