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TIL Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, and PoF are owned by the same company.

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W7709 TIL about a failed 1850s rival to the telegraph, which involved pairs of snails and the hypothesis that snails formed permanent telepathic links after they had sex.
6lDm TIL a 10-year-old saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious while driving. As they veered into oncoming traffic, the boy grabbed the wheel and guided the car to a halt in a mud filled ditch. Hailed as a hero, he credited his skills to playing Mario Kart.
MejJ7 TIL that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor of Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat movies, is a legal citizen of Japan, America, Russia, and is fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Korean.
p87kN TIL that, in the 1980's, Israel operated a beach resort in Sudan, which was actually a Mossad front allowing them to evacuate Sudanese and Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
jNpan TIL that the most expensive liquid in the world, is a thoroughbred horse semen. A gallon of gold-medal-winning Big Star's semen is worth $4.7 million.