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TIL: If Your Commute To Work Is More Than 45 Minutes, You’re 40% More Likely To Get Divorced

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4k95w TIL 8.5 million people died because of the first world war
BrYYe TIL that Grizzly Adams, the man upon whose life they based the tv and movie series, had his career ended when he received severe back and spine injuries from a Bengal tiger he was attempting to train for his employers. He went on to be a cobbler.
NXewJ TIL The American edit of Godzilla 1985 was originally meant to be more comedic but the actors refused. Raymond Burr would not treat Godzilla as a joke because the character was an anti-nuclear war allegory and Warren Kemmerling just refused to do comic material.
Z8R0R TIL about Attarsiya, a military leader from what would become Greece, who lead an army against the Hittites, in the first recorded instance of European vs. Near Eastern war
5Y6B TIL that stoplights are yellow 1 second for every 10 MPH of the posted speed limit.