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TIL Sociologist Reuben Thomas discovered online dating makes people more likely to settle down with someone from a different race, class, religion or educational background

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XEeVR TIL Chung Ju-yung, the founder of Hyundai, originally wanted to become a school teacher, but his family's dire financial situation made him unable to get higher education. Instead, he ran away from his family to Seoul, where he started a construction company, Hyundai, in 1947.
j665a TIL that stimulating a specific region of the hypothalamus can induce a male mouse to mate rather than attack another male mouse. Conversely, stimulating a different hypothalamus region can induce the male mouse to attack rather than mate with a female mouse.
nWjMo TIL The British Royal family take part in a live firing exercise within the SAS's "Killing House" incase they are ever held hostage. King Charles wrote a letter to the squadron excusing them of any crimes should he accidentally be killed during the exercise.
OoYw4 TIL between 1999 and 2014, the suicide rate in the United States increased by 24%
7rOkP TIL one of Nirvana's most controversial performances was in 1993 at the Hollywood Rock Festival in São Paulo, after playing rough versions of their songs, they swapped instruments to play a set of badly rehearsed covers while they were booed by the audience and ended the show by demolishing the gear