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TIL in 2011 a woman in France sued her ex-husband for compensation over his refusal to have sex with her during their 21-year marriage & won, with a judge ordering her ex-husband to pay her roughly $15,000. Her ex claimed he stopped having sex with her because he was too tired & had health problems.

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XExKP TIL that humans have approximately double the lifespan of our ape cousins because of a gene that we evolved to regulate the effects of our meat-rich diets.
b9Zn9 TIL that both the Energizer and Duracell battery brands use a pink bunny as their mascot. Duracell had it first, but they failed to renew the North American trademark, so Europeans associate the pink bunny with Duracell and North Americans see it as an Energizer brand.
m1GLy TIL that before the invention of electric light, most Europeans had two phases of sleep, awakening late at night before sleeping again, called biphasic sleep
v1ML8 TIL about Ed Long who clocked over 65,000 hours flying. Started at the age of 17 with his first and only lesson in 1933.
VM0lk TIL Disney insisted Jack Skellington have eyes as the eyes are what connects the character with the audience. Tim Burton and Selick wouldn't budge, and ultimately proved their anti-hero didn't need oculars to connect with the viewer.