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TIL about marriage graduation, where couples still in love decide to live separately in order to fulfill their individual life long dreams. The concept originated in Japan, and it provides freedom from marriage without the stigma of divorce.

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Ypr9d TIL that on older payphones you could tap a phone number on the hook to call someone for free
0wAeL TIL when Robert E Lee and the confederate army surrendered, Union soldiers silently saluted them. Normally victorious armies would taunt or mock defeated ones, but Union general Chamberlain respected the confederatestood much and ordered his men to salute.
ZpGYp TIL chemist Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs damage the ozone, which shields Earth from UV radiation. His work led to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out CFCs, helping heal the ozone.
v1NZx TIL the Mount Washington Cog Railway was the first mountain climbing railway in the world.
kJBd4 TIL the hottest man-made temperature was 7.2 trillion degrees Farenheit, 250,000 times hotter than the sun