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TIL A mathematical equation that can accurately determine whether a married couple will divorce with a 90% success rate is almost completely identical to one that can accurately describe the relationship between countries and whether they will go to war at a very similar rate.

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Y7L5G TIL some sharks lay spiral shark eggs and others lay 'mermaid purses'. Some sharks are oviparous (lay eggs), some are viviparous (give birth to living young) and other sharks are ovoviviparous (the eggs hatch inside the mother before the young are born alive)
P1EkE TIL that the score to Fame was composed by Michael Gore, who won an Academy Award for doing so. He also scored Terms of Endearment. He is the younger brother of Lesley Gore, who sang It's My Party.
N7gnM TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
PYj8V TIL Chickens can Fly
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