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TIL divorced people think the secret to a happy marriage is communication. People who are actually happily married say it’s not communication, it’s respect.

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W7EyB TIL That Garrett Brown, inventor of the Skycam suspended camera used to shoot sporting events, got the idea from a conversation with former football player Merlin Olsen the set of Little House on the Prairie.
OwVX TIL there is a long history of US Vice Presidents disliking the job. John Adams called it “the most insignificant office… contrived,” FDR’s Vice President Garner called it “not worth a bucket of warm piss,” and Truman joking Vice Presidents were “about as useful as a cow’s fifth teat.”
EgxE0 TIL "The Razor and Blades Business Model" is the specific term used to describe a product sold at a low price (or given away) in order to increase sales of a complementary good. For example, low-cost printers that only accept expensive refill cartridges.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
5YJxQ TIL that every November in South Korea, there's a day where everyone makes silence to help students concentrate for their most important exam of their lives. Planes are grounded, constructions are paused, banks close and even military training ceases. This day is called Suneung.