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TIL The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com

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4XGEw TIL that some birds form crèches, a "daycare system" where baby birds separate from their parents and form a group supervised by a few adults, allowing their parents to go forage for food.
oB16E TIL neutron star PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe. The star rotates 716 times every second, so its equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also 50 trillion times the density of lead and has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.
4XvbN TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.
grXp9 TIL about The Manifest Destiny that made people believe they had the right to take others land to expand capitalism and democracy
4X6aa TIL Donnie Darko was filmed in the same length of time the movie transpired in: 28 Days