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TIL of Saint Fiacre, the Patron Saint of Proctology and Hemorrhoid Sufferers

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XEXgr TIL studies have found nearly 50% of all couples get back together after breaking up. Also, couples who got back together assumed their partner had changed for the better or that they would be better at communicating.
Vy6B TIL that the ‘perfect body’ for men went from chubby, to skinny to muscular over the last 150 years.
pyRZ TIL even viruses can catch viruses
lAeN TIL a broken humerus of a giant fossil sea turtle was found in New Jersey in 1849. In 2012, another broken humerus was discovered, which was found out to be the other half of the exact same bone found 163 years prior.
R7Q4j TIL about the "Pilgrim Army", a group of 15000 crusaders who were blown off course to the holy land and made to stop in Portugal where the King convinced them to help defeat the Moors in return for anything they could plunder, the majority elected to retire in Lisbon afterward.