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TIL That women on online dating sites have it approximately 17 times easier than men do

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p8DO TIL when you mouse over “I’m feeling lucky” it now changes and brings up other “I’m feeling…”
oLZE TIL of the battle of Cerami; “The Norman Thermopylae”, where 300 Normans defeated 50.000 troops of the Emirate of Sicily
dn78 TIL a US cargo plane crashed while moving children from Vietnam. American businessman Robert Macauley heard that it would take over a week to evacuate the survivors, so he chartered a Boeing 747 and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
9LXQ TIL that a physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing “we” with “I” throughout his paper.