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TIL Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

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wPo TIL Guinness bought every British soldier in WWII a pint on Christmas Day. They would pay half your wages to your family while at war, guaranteed job when returning, funeral expenses, vacations, childrens’ education, scholarships, and paid wages 20% higher than other breweries (see more in link).
xkD TIL That sling bullets dating from 4th century B.C. have been found with the words “take that” inscribed on them
YLdG TIL in 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he’d never seen before, so took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science, only previously existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.
y0JV TIL after receiving the Medal of Honor for jumping on two grenades, Jacklyn H. Lucas proceeded to conquer his fear by joining the 82nd Airborne in which during training his parachute failed and fell 3,500 feet and was unscathed. Oh, and joined the Marines when he was 14.
X0wQD TIL President Millard Fillmore taught elementary school while clerking for a county judge, and he also married his own beloved teacher, Abigail Powers