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TIL In an effort to boost the declining birth rate, some Chinese provinces are offering 30 days of paid "marriage leave" to young newlyweds.

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OGPjg TIL A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It represents 1/100th of a second
VolQ TIL the Dandelion is edible, contains more beta-carotene than a Carrot, and exists in the U.S. only because European settlers introduced it as a salad green.
bQyp TIL of Insular Dwarfism, the tendency for small species to become larger and large species to become smaller upon being moved to an island.
9KZr TIL of a Japanese air ace who was shot in the face during a dogfight. Blind in one eye and part paralysed, “he flew upside down to prevent blood from blinding his other eye”, flew 5 hours back to base, made his report and then had surgery without anasthesia.
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