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TIL Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites

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X95E TIL that truck driver is the most common job in 29 out of 50 states
G7KN TIL Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual cues from another individual’s eyes, and dogs only do this when interacting with humans.
VM8e0 TIL that On July 21, 1972, George Carlin was arrested and charged with violating obscenity laws after performing his famous "Seven Dirty Words" routine at Milwaukee's Summerfest. He would go on to be arrested a total of seven times for reciting that same routine.
QN4XL TIL The K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer developed by Samsung has a full comms system. Which means you could call your mom using the artillery while you lob Galaxy Note 7s at the enemy to blow them up
4XkZw TIL that the World Bank stopped tracking inflation in Zimbabwe in November 2008, when it reached 79.6 billion percent. One year later, the country abandoned its currency. The exchange rate at the time was $35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars to $1 USD.