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TIL the optimal strategy of finding a good partner is to reject the first 37% of potentials, and then pick the first person better than anyone seen so far

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wLwQ1 TIL that whales closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses.
9YxEB TIL that only 10 to 20 percent of people receiving CPR in a hospital survive long enough to be discharged.
j6wpQ TIL: That Golliwogs were the second most popular children's toy in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, after the teddy bear. They were banned by Nazi Germany in 1934 on the grounds that they were inappropriate toys for Aryan children.
Qdd TIL the coroner’s report revealed Whitney Houston wore full dentures, probably as a direct result of her drug use.
9Yvr7 TIL of the worst crash in motor sports history at the 1955 Le Mans race. A car broke apart and flew into the stands, with its hood decapitating spectators like a guillotine. In the aftermath, varying reports claim 65-120 were killed. The link contains graphic content.