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TIL in 1960, 59% of American adults aged 18-29 were married. Today, only 20% are married.

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V0mG TIL A short film was made in 1976 where a man drives 85 mph through Paris while ignoring red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets, and driving on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck to get to his date. The director was rumored to be arrested on it’s first screening.
m18Qv TIL 720 fire-fighting men and women were killed in the line of duty during WW2 in England and Wales
11yW TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks
Vgap TIL: A tiger’s roar has a frequency that is silent to human ears but can paralyze its prey because it is so low and loud.
weA1 TIL altough being a communist nation and COD Black Ops causing controversy in a mission where Fidel Castro is “killed”, no video games have ever been banned in Cuba