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TIL that according to Harvard researchers, 36.4% of male online daters use anabolic steroids, as opposed to only 3.8% of non-online dating men.

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Wk6AY TIL that cities with an “erotic services” Craigslist section saw a 17% decrease in the number of women murdered
LkpyQ TIL Baseball is the most popular sport among blind people because it is slow paced, simple, and not much happens during a game so blind people don't miss much of anything by not being able to see it.
QJbGd TIL about the final speech of Romanian dictator Nicolas Ceaușescu: Having forcefully assembled 100.000 workers under threat of being fired on one of Bucharests main squares in order to stage a supportive rally, the crowd soon turned against him, marking the beginning of the end of his dictatorship.
yDma TIL the collective noun for a Groundhog is a “repetition”. As in “a repetition of groundhogs”.
W7ExY TIL the 1970 song “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry was used in a 1990s UK advertisement for a campaign against drunk-driving, because of the lyric “have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.” The ad showed a group of drinkers at a rural pub getting killed when their car crashes.