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TIL that the whole of fiction--almost every story ever written--is a variation on 7 basic plots.

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d0Vr TIL Men have nipples because mammary cells are formed in the embryo before the Y chromosome determines that the embryo is a male.
GA5BJ TIL that Bruce Lee’s famous one-inch punch was a demonstration of biomechanics, allowing him to generate significant force from minimal distance.
awQ7o TIL, after the French Revolution, the new French Government set a new means of keeping time. Days were made of 10 hours, each hour made of 100 minutes, each minute made of 100 seconds. It proved too difficult to keep for more than a decade.
RMg1 TIL that there was a Navy Seal so elite, they created his own unit just for him. And he kidnapped Admirals and infiltrated US military bases. His name, Richard Marcinko.
gM4x4 TIL in 2018, the US hit a record high of never-married adults. 35% of Americans ages 25 to 50 had never been married, compared to 9% in 1970.