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TIL people are marrying avatars on their Replika app.

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4Xb0R TIL that "Love Me Do" by The Beatles was their debut single originally released in the UK on Oct 5th, 1962. It peaked at # 17 in the charts that year.
yQwZa TIL that in 2012 F1 team Lotus agreed to pay Kimi Raikkonen around 50,000 euros for every point he scores in two years. Kimi ended up scoring 390 points in those two years resulting in 19.4 million euros bonus (higher than his salary), which almost ended up bankrupting Lotus.
NXPKE TIL some great white sharks that gather seasonally around Mexico’s Guadalupe Island hang out together. They tend to be most social when looking for food — it's basically a way to “eavesdrop” on other sharks and find an easy meal.
yK7l TIL you can get a box of elephant poop sent to someone you dislike
Jn4B TIL China is home to the world’s largest wind farm which has a capacity equivalent to the United Kingdom’s entire wind power capacity. It’s capacity is slated to quadruple.