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TIL Harley Davidson motorcycles have a failure rate over twice that of the top three motorcycle manufacturers in the world

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Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
N7kXJ TIL Sky Burials is a practice that leaves dead bodies out in the open to be eaten by vultures. It was a popular form of decomposing a human body in many cultures. It is still practiced in various main cultures and is not interfered by the law.
M7kVm TIL that a Swedish woman found her missing wedding ring, lost in 1995, wrapped around a carrot which she picked from her garden in 2012.
MepLW TIL that "Texas is a common law marriage state. Therefore, 2 willing parties (who are over 18, unmarried and aren’t related) are legally married if they publicly announce they’re married 3 times."
7oG7 TIL that in the early days of reddit, founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman created fake accounts to submit content. Admins had the ability to create new users and posts simultaneously to give the site the appearance of having an established community, until reddit could stand on its own.