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TIL that the Match Group owns most every dating app (Tinder, OKCupid, POF, Hinge and more listed below), and is being sued for putting profits over matching users. Boycott them.

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awexA TIL There is an ongoing study of Dutch seniors over age 100, self-reported to be cognitively healthy, where they are followed annually until death. Centenarians came from higher socio-economic classes and had higher levels of education compared to their birth cohort
arlL TIL that five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped one million leaflets over the city and 33 other Japanese cities warning that those cities were going to be destroyed
kxMW TIL that if you took the entire US Debt and converted it to pennies and stacked them all on top of each other, it’d be so long that it’d take light just under 2.5 hours to traverse the distance
groVD TILL: USA has the longest train track in the world. With a total route length over 155,342 miles (250,000km).
d8pPd TIL that in the 50s and 60s, American chiropractors held a series of rather unusual beauty pageants where contestants were judged and winners picked not only by their apparent beauty and poise, but also their standing posture (backed with X-rays of their spines, of course).