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TIL that while researchers used to think premarital cohabitation led to less early divorces but more longer-term marriages, that may no longer prove true. Researchers now think premarital cohabitation has short‐term benefits and longer term costs for marital stability.

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jNnZM TIL that the pigment Prussian Blue, used extensively in "Starry Night" and "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", was first synthesized by cooking blood with potash.
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