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TIL the Polish government awards a “Medal for Long Marital Life” to couples married longer than 50 years who had at least one child, either their own or adopted.

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Roo8 TIL Eminem composed ‘Lose Yourself’ entirely during breaks between shoots on the sets of 8 Mile.
eJlD TIL Canada has it’s own equivalent to the Western genre called Northerns, in these stories Canadian lawmen treat native people with compassion and Americans are often depicted as hotheads who are quick to violence
DZ7j TIL that in 2014, while live-on air at the College of Charlestown, Jim Cantore was charged at by a student. Cantore noticed the charge, and kneed the attacker in the groin. Cantore did not break his concentration and continued the report unperturbed.
N7VB1 TIL a good healthy kidney from Israel goes for about $160,000 on the black market and a kidney from India goes for $20,000
JVRQ TIL of Planned obsolescence, a manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period so that consumers are forced to buy a product multiple times rather than just once.