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TIL married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose significant weight are twice as likely to get divorced.

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8akAX TIL the Mariah Carey song "Hero" was written for the Dustin Hoffman/Geena Davis dramedy of the same name but the CEO of the record label convinced her to not give the movie the song, saying it was "too good" for the movie.
b6mBj TIL that in 2020 a man from the UK attempted to smuggle 127 grams of coccaine into Belgium inside a fake penis. He was caught at Brussels airport on a flight from Jamaica, and later got sentenced to 38 months in prison.
xVRQw TIL women tend to use more exclamation points then men to appear more friendly even in professional settings (ie business emails)
YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.
PPrn TIL that “Bride Kidnapping” is a tradition in many countries, and is responsible for up to 75% of the marriages in Kyrgyzstan, although it’s illegal.