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TIL An average Hour-Long TV Show is 36% Commercials. Late night shows even worse!

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mxRWo TIL researchers sent out surveys to 23AndMe users asking if they noticed a smell when peeing after eating asparagus. Using the 53% that said "Yes", they were able to isolate the specific part of the DNA that determines whether you can smell asparagus pee.
b90Da TIL According to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau, 19.7 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home
1aP6W TIL The man who took the first up close photo of a snowflake, Wilson A. Bentley in 1885, also started the concept "No two snowflakes are alike". In his lifetime, he took over 5k photos of snowflakes.
yVVpJ TIL Napoleon made Bavaria a kingdom, adopted his wife's non-noble niece, gave her a title and dowry, and got her engaged to a powerful prince, just so he could get his step-son to marry another powerful princess, who had been previously engaged to the prince
l7Pga TIL an 1873 US governor, Edwin McCook, beat up a constituent at a public meeting over a cigar disagreement. He was later shot by said person 4 times but still needed to be restrained from beating him up again.