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TIL Among all single people without children, women do nearly twice as much household work as men, spending 9.7 hours per week on household tasks compared to 5 hours for men.

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ADd9a TIL that irukandji jellyfish are both the smallest and one of the most venomous jellyfish in the world. There stings are so severe they can cause fatal brain hemorrhages and have been described as "100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula's".
NKPM TIL Tolkien’s book “The Two Towers” is ambiguous with regard to the title as any pair from the five towers in the story could plausibly fit the title. Tolkien drew a cover illustration showing the towers he meant but the publisher decided not to use it in order to save money.
pyOQ TIL Mister T stopped wearing his gold following Hurricane Katrina because he thought it was insulting to those who had lost so much.
nWmPd TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids
Oop11 TIL that all the gold ever mined would fit into a cube of 21 x 21 x 21 meters.