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TIL Autistic men are 4 times more likely than Autistic women to be single

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9YVkB TIL that the city of Sochi, Russia erected a fish statue costing about 3800 USD in honor of Gambusia affinis (aka mosquito fish) since, after introducing the fish in the early 1900s, there have been no cases of malaria for over 60 years.
Gyw5 TIL Tenzing Norgay left some chocolate at the top of Mt Everest when he climbed with Edmund Hillary. The chocolate was just eaten by some vandals in 2012.
n5Wd TIL That so many Purple Hearts were made in anticipation of the invasion of Japan that every Purple Heart since World War II has come from that stock.
6EKO7 TIL the Titanic isn't the largest passenger ship wreck on the sea floor. Its sister ship, the Brittanic, sank in WWI during its service as a hospital ship, after hitting a sea mine near Greece. 1035 survived while 30 people died, most from a lifeboat hitting the ship's propeller.
QJmZp TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.