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TIL that "professional regurgitation" is actually a thing

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YxNP TIL that the ‘fact’ that 50% of marriages end in divorce is the result of poor scholarship. In reality, only 30% of first marriages end in divorce and only 20% end in divorce if the partners are educated and over 25 when wed.
PBYL TIL 20% of Belarus’ annual budget is spent on costs associated with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
LVGr TIL there’s a place called The Bolton Strid, which looks like a stream from the surface, but is actually a water filled, underground chasm. You fall in, and you don’t come out.
d8PQB TIL about the case of Carl Tanzler, a Florida man who dug up the body of the “love of his life” Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos, essentially taxidermied her, and then lived with her corpse in his home for 7 years.
jNj0v TIL that the American Indian tribes removed to Oklahoma in the "Trail of Tears" were considered "civilized" and had adopted "Christianity, centralized governments, literacy, market participation, written constitutions, intermarriage with white Americans, and plantation slavery practices"