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TIL 80% of all marriages in history are between second cousins or closer

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LN79 TIL Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after both her parents spent hours each day raising a virtual child on an online game, Prius Online.
KjnR TIL a high school in Allen, TX built a $60 million football stadium that was forced to close after 18 months due to “construction failures” and “deficient design.” It reopened over a year later and the Allen Eagles have yet to lose a game in their new stadium.
YdvG TIL there is a planned theme park in London called ‘London Paramount’ that will cost £2bn and be 1.5x the size of Disneyland and have BBC themed rides such as Doctor Who
b4EE TIL: On Johnny Carson’s final show, Comedy Central went dark, leaving a video gone-fishing sign saying the people are out “watching Johnny Carson’s last show and so should you.”
PmDG TIL that writing was likely only invented from scratch three times in history: in the Middle East, China, and Central America. All other alphabets and writing systems were either derived from or inspired by the the others, or were too incomplete to fully express the spoken language.