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TIL New York City residents are among the healthiest, longest living Americans. This is due in part to the large amount of walking NYC-ers are forced to do.

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xVnE0 TIL the 1975 Ford Custom/LTD not only was the 8th most reliable car in the Consumer Reports surveying of '75 cars, it also was more reliable than any import that wasn't a Toyota or Mercedes-Benz.
oBdA8 TIL that there's a rare condition called spatio-temporal synesthesia where people can visualize time within space.
K0jR TIL that the largest virus in the world has been called the Pandoravirus. They bore no morphological or genomic resemblance to any previously defined virus families leading the researchers to speculate that this virus may represent a previously unknown branch of the tree of life.
JYExk TIL Insulated glass (critical for modern skyscraper construction) was patented in 1865 but didn’t see commercialization for 60 years; and finally trademarked as Thermopane in 1941.
1jE4 TIL of the Coolidge Effect: where the window after intercourse when a male can’t have sex again is removed if the male is given the chance to have sex with a new partner.