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TIL Sex and alcohol make you happier than kids and religion

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4kdW5 TIL: 528 atmospheric nuclear tests have been conducted worldwide between 1945 and 1996.
xVN41 TIL Glass actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. Glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible.
v8gr TIL that a cat named Tama is a manager at a railway station in Japan, a job which pays her in cat food. During her tenure ridership has increased 10%, leading her to be promoted to super-station manager in 2008.
jXNv TIL British Royal Navy pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown holds the world record for most aircraft carrier landings - 2,407. The US Navy gave one man the specific job of breaking the record. He got up to 1,600 and then had a nervous breakdown.
JYWMm TIL that most Turkish citizens never heard before or can’t notice many languages spoken in the country by other ethnic minorities. Ie. some think Greek is Japanese.