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TIL that, due to fires and poor archiving and storage methods, approximately 90% of films from the Silent Era (1890s-1920s) are lost

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41gw TIL that it is a myth your metabolism slows with age. The reason you tend to gain weight is a decrease in physical activity over time.
v1PZL TIL that in a 1986 poll during the AIDS crisis by the LA Times, 50 percent of adults surveyed supported a quarantine of AIDS patients, 48 percent would approve of identity cards for those who test positive for antibodies causes AIDS and 15 percent favored tattooing AIDS victims.
oBkbL TIL that while researchers used to think premarital cohabitation led to less early divorces but more longer-term marriages, that may no longer prove true. Researchers now think premarital cohabitation has short‐term benefits and longer term costs for marital stability.
M7rrA Today I learned that if we lived on Mars, we would soon develop orange skin.
gVV7 TIL that both the tallest and shortest nba players of all time, Muggsy Bogues (5'3) and Manute Bol (7'7), played together on the same team