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TIL The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a guy she met on match.com

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E1xLV TIL a group of well preserved wooden spears were unearthed at a German coal mine. They are between 380,000 and 400,000 years old, making them at least 75x older than the pyramids of Eygpt. These are the oldest wooden artifacts ever unearthed.
7rj9Z TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.
o8nR TIL JP Morgan has paid $36 billion for dozens of frauds, over the last 5 years.
loJXG TIL that actor Ed Helms who plays Stu in the Hangover movies, had a tooth implant from when he was 15, which he removed while shooting for the first Hangover where his character has a tooth missing for most of the film.
RLrQ TIL that an Australian man named James Harrison was found to have an unusual plasma composition in his blood that has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease. He has made over 1000 donations throughout his lifetime, and these donations are estimated to have saved over two million lives.