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TIL that in China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”

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ZOWB TIL MRI scans have found that the pain of rejection and physical pain are associated with similar regions of the brain. One study found that the painkiller acetaminophen reduced the reported levels of emotional pain in a rejection experiment.
kOpOE TIL that all a copy of all the open source software code on Github is stored in a decommissioned coal mine in Svalbard archipelago (right next to the Global Seed Vault) long-term preservation. The archive designed to last at least 1,000 years.
X00oD TIL General Motors uses byproducts from their cars to create artificial stalactites for bats. These artificial caves help prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome (a deadly fungus) by reducing overcrowding & giving the bats more space.
9Ybl7 TIL that negative probability exist and were discovered in 1942. Although highly criticized at first, they are now the bases of quantum mechanics and risk neutral probabilities in finance.
oBEbK TIL that on the last day of his presidency, President Andrew Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun."