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TIL that romantic love lasts a year. After that ‘attachment love’ sets in

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OdaX TIL Kirk Douglas, star of Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), will turn 100 years old on December 9th. He has starred in 91 films, won a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1996, and has survived a helicopter crash and a stroke. He is also the world’s oldest celebrity blogger.
K799 TIL that Gandhi often slept and bathed naked with other women – including a grandniece and the wife of his grandnephew, who were both 18 when they started sleeping in the same bed as Gandhi, who was 77 years old at the time.
696Lm TIL the Binary Millennium is only 14 years away - , January 19th 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC, apparently.
ZpJ6R TIL that there is an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
0dgnj TIL that when J.J. Benjamin traveled in Persia circa 1851, he noted Persian Jews were not permitted to leave their houses when it rained, “for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans.”