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TIL Gyms need a steady stream of new membership sign-ups, but must count on most of them never showing up. Gyms just aren’t big enough to accommodate even half their members at once.

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XENPQ TIL that dolphins have "bromances" in which two males may pair up for as long as 15 years, helping each other to hook up with female dolphins.
OoeOY TIL Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner in chemistry, was a eugenicist. He urged that human carriers of defective genes have a compulsory visible mark - such as forehead tattoos - to discourage potential mates with the same defect, having kids together.
44xN TIL that the Moon was proposed to be the 51st State of the USA
rX7y TIL Hans Christian Andersen was obsessed with masturbating. The author of The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen put a mark in his diary every time he masturbated. In spite of this, he died a virgin.
GAPM1 TIL Jeff Koons' studio resembles an art factory. He doesn't do the sculpting or much of the painting in his artwork. It's his ideas & standards but artisans do the labor. In 2019, his stainless steel inflatable rabbit resold for $91 million; highest ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist