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TIL Women find 80% of men below-average looking - according to research based on OkCupid’s 7 million users

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Rry1 TIL William Sokolin paid $519,750.00 for a bottle of 1787 vintage wine which supposedly had been owned by Thomas Jefferson, then later accidentally knocked it over, breaking it and spilling the precious contents on the floor.
x6jMo TIL: Shell created scenarios called Scramble and Blueprint to deal with dwindling energy resources by 2050. Written in 2008, 15 years later the Scramble scenario has proven scarily accurate.
bWEa TIL the popular Actor John Wayne was an unabashed white supremacist who voiced support for the genocide of Native Americans
W7OgY TIL that the son of Sam Walton, the founder of the Walmart, served in special operations during the Vietnam War and was considered a hero… The Story
5XLQ TIL that the Greek explorer Pytheas was the first to encounter the northern arctic ice caps, the Germanic tribes, and the Midnight Sun. He was also the first to posit that the tides were caused by the moon and visited Great Britain in 325 BC.