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TIL that December 11 is the most common breakup day of the year, with Christmas causing couples to reflect on whether they want to continue with relationship.

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GYOXQ TIL The Toba catastrophe theory that states human population was bottle-necked about 70K years ago due to a super massive volcanic eruption. Humanity may have dwindled to less than 10K individuals and many other animal species were similarly affected.
9wK0X TIL that people who develop hearing problems during mid-life (aged 40–65) have an increased risk of developing dementia
B7Rd TIL that theres a genre of music called “black midi” which consists of millions of notes, and is impossible to play without a high performance computer. The name comes from the fact that the sheet music of this is literally black from there being so many notes so close together.
1a7lP TIL after South Park premiered in 1997, the number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million, to a staggering 50 million by 1998.
lo61N TIL that after being stung by the Warrior Wasp, sting pain index creator Justin Schmidt described the pain as, "torture, you are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?"