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TIL that the ‘fact’ that 50% of marriages end in divorce is the result of poor scholarship. In reality, only 30% of first marriages end in divorce and only 20% end in divorce if the partners are educated and over 25 when wed.

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K079 TIL Pigeons are superstitious. When given food at irregular intervals in a lab, they develop rituals (like spinning in a circle) associated with whatever they were doing before the food arrived.
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LkAv TIL that Eminem turned to Elton John for help during his drug addiction, and they still stay in contact to this day.
v0Px TIL that a woman gave birth to three children whose DNA didn’t match her own. Despite being monitored while giving birth, she was charged with benefits fraud until it was discovered she carried two complete and differing sets of DNA.
XEr5j TIL Stu, the IT guy from "what we do in the shadows", is in fact an IT guy named Stu in real life. He thought he was on set to help with IT related tasks and had no idea how big his part in the movie was until filming was almost wrapped