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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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X0mBE TIL that actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who was cast as young Voldemort in the Harry Potter films is the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who played old Voldemort. Although he auditioned along with thousands of others, this family connection led to accusations of nepotism.
VBJx0 TIL, 3 is the acceptable # of rodent hairs in crab meat, and tuna in the United States
grdBb TIL an infection model explains why spiral galaxies have spiral arms—the deaths of massive stars trigger star formation elsewhere (infection), while their vicinities recover due to the dispersed material; this propagation/recovery and the galaxy's rotation leads to the spiral structures
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