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TIL The set used for Amity Island in Jaws (1975) was later used as Cabot Cove on Murder She Wrote.

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yVJ5l TIL Research shows older childfree adults don't typically regret not having kids, and may experience even less desire to change aspects of their lives than their peers who had children.
nWJGW TIL Michelle Kunimoto discovered dozens of planets while an undergraduate and Ph.D. student at age 26. She uses publicly available data collected by NASA’s Kepler Mission and studied them in a new, more sensitive way to find signals of planets that Kepler had missed
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