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TIL A new survey of nearly 20,000 people who married between 2005 and 2012 finds that Cupid’s arrow flies as true for online daters as it does for partners who meet through more traditional venues.

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wYBP TIL it is possible to score a “quintuple double” in basketball. This has never happened in the NBA; only in Girls high-school play.
9dam TIL The guy who sang “She Blinded Me With Science” believes the Earth is flat.
lp7G TIL Charles Sheridan repeated Milgram’s experiment with one difference. He used a puppy as a victim instead of a human. Intriguingly, the six students out of 26 that refused to go on were all men while all thirteen women who participated in the experiment obeyed right up until the end.
07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
78lyX TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was so powerful that it generated “seiches” (standing waves in enclosed bodies of water) of up to 1.5 meters to form as far away as Sognefjorden, Norway.