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Til the founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.

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J1R4B TIL that in Old English "deer" described any animal. As language evolved, the meaning changed and narrowed until it started to describe only one type of animal. It's a change unique to English and Scots, as "deer" (tier, djur, dyr, dier, etc.) still means animal in all other Germanic languages.
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ndnY TIL that the ban of leaded gasoline is believed to have been a major cause for falling violent crime rates in the United States
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