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TIL women are significantly more likely than men to experience partner abandonment during serious illness

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N75NJ TIL that In-N-Out pays store managers an average yearly salary of more than $160,000. More than the typical California dentist, accountant or financial advisor.
gMNbA TIL that in 2013 Detroit was so broke that they were unable to print out death certificates because they had not been able to pay the company that provided the special embossed paper on which they were printed, and subsequently ran out.
M7xK7 TIL that the oldest English recipe for an Indian-style curry dates to 1758
p8LDb TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.
wL6LM TIL "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" was the official title of Idi Amin, who ruled Uganda.