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TIL research across 160 cultures revealed that spousal infidelity is the most common reason for a breakup

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a8pD9 TIL when you recall a memory, you're actually remembering the last time you remembered it, not the event itself. To the extent where our memory of an event can grow less precise... even to the point of being totally false with each retrieval
OoX91 TIL that Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" (1995), which was later parodied by Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" (1996), is not itself an entirely original song. But rather, it is largely based on (to the point of nearly being a parody cover of) Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" (1976).
mNDp TIL the total length of the fight between Goku and Frieza in Dragonball Z is 4 hours and 13 minutes
xVdnb TIL that many ancient papyri (and knowledge about Ptolemaic Egypt) were discovered after a workman, frustrated with having discovered yet another crocodile mummy, threw it and broke it, leading to the discovery that some ancient mummies were stuffed with written papyri
x6yZB TIL Nüshu (女书) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in Jiangyong Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. As these women were forbidden formal education, they developed the Nüshu script to communicate with one another.