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TIL in the US, White husband/Black wife marriages are 44% LESS likely to end in divorce while Black husband/White wife is 50% MORE likely to end in divorce.

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9aV7 TIL an American who disappeared in China in 2004 is strongly suspected of having been kidnapped by North Korean agents and may still be alive in Pyongyang.
R5804 TIL that I've been calling everything an ACRONYM when in fact they could instead be an INITIALISM. An acronym can be spoken like a word e.g. FIFA, NASA, RAM, where as an initialism cannot be easily spoken as a word e.g. FBI, CIA, UFO, HSBC, and are instead pronounced letter by letter.
WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.
wxYE TIL Heroin was made popular in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company. They advertised Heroin as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant.
yQvRw TIL one typo lead to the hire of a Geoffrey Tandy, a seaweed expert (cryptogamist) instead of a codebreaker (cryptogramist) during WW2, but the help of the seaweed expert accelerated the end of the war by 2 to 4 yrs saving millions of lives in the process