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TIL America’s Loneliness Epidemic: Nearly 40 MILLION American adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers

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R7Zv4 TIL French Composer Erik Satie founded his own church named "the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor"
j66bM TIL that two separate historical figures have died from laughter at a joke about figs. Chrysippus of Soli and King Martin of Aragon
1aPJO TIL the earliest clear Western reference to pasta is in the Jerusalem Talmud, written around the 5th century
neDWo TIL Martha Washington probably did not name her feral tomcat after Alexander Hamilton, despite rumors that may have originated in a satirical letter after Hamilton's death.
GY7gJ TIL mathematician George Dantzig was late to class one day in college and copied down a few problems he saw on the board. Thinking they were homework, he completed and turned them in not realizing they were actually two famous unsolved problems in statistics.