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TiL The average millennial credit score is 659
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TIL: Japanese women are expected to give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine’s Day as part of a tradition called giri choco – literally, obligation chocolates. Men are supposed to reciprocate on 14 March on White Day – an event dreamed up by chocolate makers in the early 80s to boost sales.
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TIL No roads connect the Kamchatka Peninsula to the rest of the world but it has a developed tourist infrastructure. The city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, majority ethnic Russians, has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast
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TIL: “An Airedale named ‘Jack’ ran through half a mile of enemy fire, with a message attached within his collar. He arrived at headquarters with his jaw broken and one leg badly splintered, and right after he delivered the message, he dropped dead in front of its recipient.”
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TIL: Caffeine is a banned substance by the NCAA. A urinary caffeine concentration exceeding 15 micrograms per milliliter (corresponding to ingesting about 500 milligrams, roughly 6 to 8 cups of brewed coffee, two to three hours before competition) results in a positive drug test.
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TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.