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TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified "no response" from men as "choosing divorce" which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.

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5Vg1Q TIL criminally negligent homicide is a less serious offense than murder or manslaughter and is defined as an act of criminal negligence resulting in the death of another person
W6Ko TIL that Colorado and Washington are the two least religious states in the country.
jNw9M TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use agreement. The only condition was that no Spaceballs merchandise would be made to compete with Star Wars merchandise. This is why there’s never been any Spaceballs figures, cereal, or flamethrower.
xAeB TIL that In September 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall and confided that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
eBB5 TIL that only 24% of Arab Americans are Muslim.