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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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m10ME TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she spent 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after her plane broke apart & scattered the passengers. She knew how to give first aid & survive in the wilderness because she'd been homeschooled in a rural area, so unlike the others she survived her journey out.
JYyA4 TIL In 1994, four of Pixar's directors had a lunch where they came up with four movie ideas. Those ideas became A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL-E.
a84Zo TIL about Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing's first three-division world champion. He is the first middleweight champion to win the heavyweight title and has the Guinness world record for being the 'lightest' heavyweight champion, weighing in at 165lbs when he won the title.
rOZ0 TIL that in 1935 when Roosevelt raised the top tax rate to 79% for those making over $5 million it only applied to one person in the United States: John D. Rockefeller
X0MmR TIL modern nuclear weapons are thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in WWII