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TIL American intermarriage between Black women/White men has the second lowest divorce rate; next to East-Asian couples.

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0My TIL: The “Little Red-Haired Girl” in Peanuts was based off Donna Mae Johnson.After dating for three years Schulz proposed to her but she turned him down.
rRpPo TIL Spiderman was featured in an anti-drug comic book series in 1993. In the first issue, Spidey helps a kid's hockey team say "NO" to drugs
R5xg8 TIL on James Cameron's 3rd dive to the Titanic, he & his pilot had "a near-death experience". They encountered a sandstorm on the ocean floor & became temporarily stuck there with low power supply & few batteries. It took them 3 attempts from the bottom to rise above 25 meters & surface 5 hrs later.
Me1b TIL that the Basque language is so ancient that their word for axe, aizkora, literally means stone (held) high, or stone on top.
w7kM TIL The Hammer of Thor is one of the official religious emblems available for headstones in U.S. military cemeteries.