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TIL that US research shows that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s

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6E4k7 TIL Helly Juell Hansen was a Norwegian captain that first produced clothes in 1877 to protect his crew against the harsh Nordic weather. His revolutionary new product infused linseed oil into cotton fabric. 141 years later, in 2018 the company was sold to Canadian Tire for $985 million.
P19we TIL Universal Studio's Colonial Street set has been home to Desperate Housewives, Psycho, Leave It To Beaver, The Munsters, The Hardy Boys, The Burbs, Dragnet, Delta House,Nancy Drew, The House Of the Seven Gables and more, all on the same "street". Built in the 1950, it remains in use today.
gMY1b TIL the first KFC restaurant was actually in Utah and was named that way because the sign painter thought "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sounded more exotic. Colonel Sanders did invent and his famous chicken in Kentucky though.
a8mdM TIL about Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, which crashed after it was hijacked by three Ethiopian men who tried to get it to fly to Australia in hopes of getting asylum. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian ocean, leading to the deaths of 125 of the 175 people on board.
pYLb TIL that gunnery sergeant R. Lee Ermey was originally meant to be the technical supervisor for Full Metal Jacket. He pretended to be gunnery sergeant Hartman while interviewing extras and had the interviews filmed. When Stanley Kubrick saw the video he gave Ermey the part.