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TIL: “shitstorm” has been adopted into the German language as, a perfectly polite noun meaning, an internet born controversy

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a8vjM TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality
6L9Q TIL 50% of marriages no longer end in divorce. It’s more like 35% if you married in the ‘90s, and 15% if you married in the 2000s.
OA8a TIL that Steven Spielberg had acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell, which will be made into a live action movie that is prospected to have Scarlett Johanson as leading actress
9Yd6r TIL President John Adams drank a hard cider every morning at breakfast to settle his stomach
GYM9E TIL about the Milford massacre. 52 European settlers of Milford, MN were killed in 1 day by a band of Dakota Sioux.