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TIL just 20% of adults ages 18 to 29 are married, compared with 59% in 1960.

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8e7PP TIL that at Guantanamo Bay, there is an overabundance of a type of rodent called a "banana rat" because their poops look like little bananas.
y7w8 TIL in 1961 the US Air Force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, each more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, but nether exploded. One of them remains buried in the ground where it landed.
5Y5Z9 TIL that the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor (age 97) says that what he witnessed in Europe still haunts him “every single day of his life.”
6EoV7 TIL that while Rick Moranis has been on a long acting hiatus, he did return to the character of Dark Helmet voicing the Spaceballs baddie for an episode of The Goldbergs.
rmee TIL that James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, was functionally mute for 8 years when he was young.