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TIL 30% of one night stands actually turn into long-term relationships.

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Ol6X TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.
N7rwN TIL elephant shrews were called that because they are shrews with flexible noses like an elephant, but genetic analysis discovered they are not true shrews and are actually more closely related to elephants
wogEE TIL in demonology, among guys with such names as Azazel or Paimon, there is a demon named "Leonard"
KYZk6 TIL 17-20 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant die every day in the United States and only slightly more than half of the 100,000+ people on the list are expected to receive an organ within five years.
W7eNX TIL the first “Blackhawk” helicopter was the Sikorsky S-67, a tandem seat attack helicopter with a compartment to transport 8 troops, and short wings that held ordinance. A design that would later be seen on the Russian Mi-24 Hind.