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TIL Taking it in turns to pay for meals makes you happier than splitting the bill

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JYMvl TIL That There Were Men Castrated in Childhood to Keep Their Prepubescent Voices: "Castrato". Apparently it was because women weren't allowed to sing in the church at the time, so this was their solution to still achieve "women'-like sounds"
R7LOw TIL The largest pre-WW1 plane was built by Igor Sikorsky and was named after a Kiev Rus warrior. Sikorsky personally flew the plane from Petersburg to his native Kiev setting several world records.
G5o5 TIL Peanut butter in a plastic jar at the supermarket usually has a sell-by date of about 18 months after it hits the shelf. Past this date, if it’s unopened it’s still perfectly good. Opened, peanut butter will slowly develop off-flavors of rancid nuts over the next five or so years.
Wk4A4 TIL Archimedes's cattle problem, a 2 millenium-old poem containing an arithmetical problem which involves computing the number of cattle the sun god's herd, was discovered in 1773. It took 107 years for it to be solved. The answer was 7.76x10^206544, more cattle than could fit in the universe.
PV1O TIL Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad) wrote Chris Farley’s famous “Matt Foley: Motivational Speaker” SNL character.