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TIL women get more negatively affected from a breakup but make a much better recovery and come out stronger from the experience, while men take much longer to come to terms with the separation, never fully recover, and simply move on.

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QJgOe TIL that the football huddle was invented during the 1890’s by the quarterback of the all deaf Gallaudet College football team so that the players from the opposing teams wouldn’t be able to read the plays as they were signing them to each other.
X0pGR TIL that’s Kangaroo testicles were stuffed with grass and used as a football by indigenous Australians and the game bore quite the resemblance to Aussie Rules Football.
ADYZ4 TIL Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine. He then told the Turks that Greece had a submarine, so they bought two. Then he told the Russians the Turks had two submarines, so they bought two as well. None of the submarines worked.
NXn8e TIL that Steve Jobs had tendency to eat only one or two foods, like carrots or apples, for weeks at a time
b5OQ TIL that Somaliland, a unrecognized but self-declared state in Somalia, is relatively peaceful, holds democratic elections, and has a functioning government, unlike the rest of Somalia.