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TIL at some point in the last 80 years, the cost of a blowjob from a Chicago prostitute went from being more expensive to less expensive than vaginal sex, as the societal taboo against oral sex – which gave it scarcity value – declined. (The average price of each is currently $37.26 versus $80.05.)

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xK5g TIL that executive Fred Thorlin, who while working with Bill Gates introduced a game to him, beat Bill 35 out of 37 times. When they met again a month later, Gates won or tied every game. “He had studied the game until he solved it. That is a competitor.”
1aLmO TIL of Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter. Once, when asked whether she had a message for the children of America, she replied, "no." She later became an activist, protesting foreign policy towards South African apartheid, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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e0ro5 TIL of Xennials - a micro generation born between 1977 and as late as 1985, who don’t fit the mold of either Gen X or Millennials, but share characteristics with both cohorts.