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TIL that the number of users on Instagram is now larger than Twitter’s

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N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.
D1ODg TIL in 1998 the average monetary loss of a 7-Eleven robbery was just $37.
KYGPG TIL that the people in Pompeii did not become "stone statues" by the lava flowing by, but rather encapsulated under a layer of lava and their decomposed bodies leaving a void which arceologists filled with plaster to recreate the bodies that once was there and the postures in which they died.
Jlvl TIL there are dozens of diggers buried under luxury homes in London because it is cheaper to leave them there than to get them out and sell them on.
jNQ8N TIL that one of the findings of the Kinsey Scale study was that men trended towards homosexuality more so than women, contrary to the perception that women were more homosexually inclined. Kinsey speculated that this perception was a product of "wishful thinking" on the part of heterosexual men.