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TIL millennials now outnumber baby boomers.

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nkNd TIL the Olympic event that could have been: in the 1908 Summer Games, pistol dueling was a sport. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
mxEby TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
ogxY TIL octopi are known to sneak onboard fishing boats, open holds, and eat the crabs used as bait.
VBWy4 TIL that, despite having been dead for a year, a cat was successfully registered as a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants by her owner, seeking to showcase the complete lack of any verification for membership aside from payment.
b9dYE TIL when Michael Bay was 15 George Lucas made him work on the storyboard to Raiders of the Lost Ark and after seeing the movie in theater he decided to become a film director.