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TIL Asian female/White male marriages are the least likely to divorce in any interracial marriage pairing.

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5YAVp TIL that you should never wash raw chicken. Doing do increases your risk of food poisoning from campylobacter bacteria by splashing water contaminated with the bacteria onto hands, work surfaces, clothing, and cooking equipment.
neOWo TIL rubbing alcohol makes open wounds sting because it lowers the temperature threshold of heat-detecting VR1 receptors--so much so that your own body heat triggers a burning sensation
YpemP TIL Chris Columbus once successfully intimidated Jamaican locals by correctly predicting a total lunar eclipse. He said that if they stopped providing for him and his crew, God would get angry and make the moon disappear. When the eclipse actually occurred, they begged for God's forgiveness.
pYv6Q TIL that the crew of the USS Triton were not told what the goal of Operation Sandblast was (a submerged circumnavigation of the world) until the submarine had already left port and was underway
X0JGE TIL While the Pope resided in Viterbo in 1377 a Cardinal's retainer tried to bathe his little dog in a fountain. The woman in line behind him complained loudly, which escalated to a brawl and then a full revolt, resulting in several dead, including the woman, as well as many destroyed buildings