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TIL In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single.

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46DJ TIL Disney once had plans to team up with the makers of Myst for a Myst themed interactive park, Myst Island.
dD6xK TIL there is a village in the basin of the Grand Canyon called Supai. It's the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation. It is one of the most remote towns in the United States and it's only accessible by foot or by helicopter. It's the only place in the US where mail is still carried by mules.
woLN6 TIL each day there are over 100,000 planes flying around the world
wLAko TIL Clair Cameron Petterson, the American geochemist who proposed the still-accepted age of the Earth of 4.5 billion years old, helped accelerated the phaseout of lead from all standard, consumer, automotive gas, decreasing lead level in blood of Americans by 80% by the late 1990s.
QNdle TIL of the artwork Tilted Arc, a 120 foot long and 12 foot high piece of metal, which caused a public debate in Manhattan as many people thought it was ugly. It was removed in 1989 and has not been displayed in public since in accordance with the artist's wishes since the piece is site-specific.