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TIL The authors of a 2009 study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine speculated that "if a man or woman has not had intercourse by age 25, there is a reasonable chance [he or she] will remain a virgin at least until age 45."

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GAvG4 TIL that in 1994 the Government of Kiribati introduced a change in time zone for its eastern half that led to the International Date Line to move over 1,000 km eastwards to go around the country
RoGj TIL that the US almost passed a bill to fill its rivers with hippos as a source of meat.
9er7 TIL Nazi POWs living in American camps buried the corn they were given because they didn’t like it. They got caught when the corn started growing out of the ground.
VRaG TIL in 1991 there was an oil spill in the Persian Gulf, more than 10x more oil than the Exxon Valdez that was never cleaned up.
vPE58 TIL about the Tyndall effect, which is light scattering by particles in a colloid such as a very fine suspension.