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TIL the DVD rental service redbox is owned by the company that makes those 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books

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wMgP TIL: Having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person’s happiness. On average, the effect of a new baby on a person’s life in the first year is worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.
Eg8XW TIL: Cormac McCarthy's inspiration for The Road was when in El Paso, TX with his young son "McCarthy looked out the window late one night and imagined what the city might look like in fifty or one hundred years and saw: "fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste"
v1B04 TIL about a 3,100-mile ultramarathon that takes place around a single Queens NYC block. Runners have 52 days to run the route 5,649 times during which many experience out-of-body hallucinations. Only 43 people have ever finished.
rlgd TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
AD0Na TIL a teacher in South Carolina started a ‘Gentleman’s Club’ for more than 60 at-risk children to teach them important life lessons and social skills and support them so that they would grow up to become successful adults. He even provides donated jackets and ties to students who cannot afford them.