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

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764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
Rv68 TIL Walt Disney specified that Cinderella Castle at Disney World would be just short enough not to require a flashing red aircraft warning light on top distracting from the “magic.”
nWkBG TIL that one man (Chris Clark) bought the domain "pizza.com" in 1994 and sold it for $2.6 million at auction.
yQkXl TIL that Idris Elba is also a talented house DJ
woN8W TIL about the elite overproduction theory, where a sucessful society produces more percieved members of the elite than it can sustain, thus creating societal instability when an "alternative" elite bands together to take over power in what they see as their rightful places in society