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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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nge7 TIL There is no month where there isn’t a chance of frost in Minnesota.
8egM4 TIL about “Riot Dogs,” stray dogs that have become symbols of resistance by accompanying protesters during demonstrations, notably in Greece and Chile, and more recently observed in Georgia.
8aAmK TIL Sir John Harington (born 1560), known as the inventor of the flush toilet, is related to Kit Harington (born 1986) of Game of Thrones fame. It’s also why some people refer to the toilet as the ‘john’.
8ey6G TIL Siblings can get completely different results (e.g., one 30% Irish and another 50% Irish) from DNA ancestry tests, even though they share the same parents, due to genetic recombination.
NXegM TIL that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem