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TIL Pakistan is an acronym: Punjab, Afghan and Kashmir

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nW8b9 TIL: There is a study on hobbies which categorizes them from the best to worst in terms of happiness to cost ratio. The most expensive are traveling ($630), Collecting ($287), and Cooking ($240). Video games only cost $71 monthly in comparison.
m1Opy TIL that 1 in 3 young men in the US report having no intercourse.
w958 TIL sporting goods company Wilson was started in 1913 as a way to use animal by-products from New York slaughterhouses. Its first products were strings for tennis rackets and violins
nenKb TIL Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro is the Only Coast Guard Medal of Honor Recipient and helped save 500 Marines at Guadalcanal. He died while getting the last Marines out. His last words were “Did they get off?” referring to the last of the Marines.
x6KGk TIL in the 1870s and 1880s, prostitution was the primary job for women in Helena, Montana. In 1886, the city had 52 prostitutes employed. The madams gained immense wealth and purchased multiple city blocks and even established their mortgage company.