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TIL more than a third of divorce filings contained the word Facebook

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eoO6 TIL Legend says King Christian X of Denmark told a German sentry that a Nazi flag had to be taken down. After refusal, the King said he would send a Danish solider to remove it. The sentry said the soldier would be shot. The King replied, “The Danish soldier will be me.” The flag was removed.
ZwOB TIL A Stanford psych study showed that unnecessarily using big words actually makes you sound dumber
D1bxP TIL that a professor who ran a long running study on a pitch drop missed every single drop. One in 1977 because he went home tired, another in 1988 because he went to get a cup of tea, and in 2000 due to a malfunctioned webcam. When the next drop finally fell in 2014, he had died 8 month earlier
jEXM TIL that the ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot
0de9R TIL that in 1956, songwriter Roger Miller was driving along and saw a sign on the side of a barn, ""Trailers for sale or rent". That became the first line of his new song, "King of the Road", which hit #1 on the country chart, #1 on the easy listening chart, and #4 on the Hot 100 for that year.