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TIL 50% of marriages no longer end in divorce. It’s more like 35% if you married in the ‘90s, and 15% if you married in the 2000s.

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DQmGv TIL that “keming” is a joke term for bad kerning - the spacing between letters - where poor kerning makes the “r” and “n” in “kerning” blend together, turning it into “keming.” Coined by designer David Friedman in 2008, it’s a favourite inside joke among designers.
nWnBP TIL that the name of the band ''Lynyrd Skynyrd'' was based on a teacher named Leonard Skinner, who did not accept long hair at the high school where some members of lynyrd skynyrd studied and as a way of paying homage they opted for a tongue-in-cheek with your name.
nWNEb TIL Serpent D'Océan is a sculpture made of aluminium, 130m in length. It represents the skeleton of an immense imaginary sea serpent, whose vertebrae undulate to end in an open mouth.
J1rbv TIL Jefferson Davis attempted to patent a steam-operated propeller invented by his slave, Ben Montgomery. Davis was denied because he was not the "true inventor." As President of the Confederacy, Davis signed a law that permitted the owner to apply to patent the invention of a slave.
5YDO9 TIL there was a popular chocolate product from Lebanon called Ras El Abed, meaning "slave's head". It has recently changed its name.