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TIL American adults(18+) have an average of two close friends they are able to confide in with 4% of adults having none.

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rNwL0 TIL of Murderers Row, a group of ethnic minority boxers in the 1940’s, who were considered too dangerous to be given a world championship opportunity.
698Om TIL the Music Group Jethro Thull was named after a Eighteen Century British Agriculturist who invented the seed drill
wZQ8 TIL The concept of the “Rapture” was first presented in 1830. There is no mention of it in the bible or any christian writings prior to that date.
bBd0 TIL that there is a town in New York that voted to secede from the Union in 1861, and did not formally rejoin until 1945.
JYwem TIL in 2010, a papyrus document featuring Cleopatra's handwriting went on display at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. The document refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. Cleopatra signed it with a Greek word meaning "make it happen".