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TIL The olympic flame has gone out at least 44 times in Russia.

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mxJrP TIL the world isn’t getting worse entirely. The world has greater access to water, electricity, and food, and female education has increased from 65% to 90% from 1970 to 2015. It’s difficult to feel positive in the world sometimes. This cheered me up a little.
ZP4D TIL that human saliva contains a natural, non-addictive opiate, “Opiorphin”, and this is why we “lick our wounds”.
69M08 TIL that a Japanese man named Yasuo Takamatsu searches for his wife's remains after she was lost in the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
OoPK4 TIL: Craigslist has over $500 million annual revenue, nets about $100 mil, has a (now) billionaire founder, and only charges for ads in 6 cities.
mxmoO TIL Female brown trout will fake 'orgasms' when courting with inferior males. She'll give all the right visual cues as if about to release eggs for fertilisation, but doesn't; the male will frantically ejaculate, not notice he's been duped, and swim away.