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TIL for a relationship to be happy, researchers say the ratio of positive to negative interactions needs to be 5:1

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0dOny TIL there’s a town in Nebraska with only one resident—Elsie Eiler—who serves as mayor, bartender, and librarian for Monowi’s 5,000-book library.
BrkDD TIL of Unsinkable Sam, a ship’s cat who survived 3 ships’ sinkings during WW2, once on a German battleship before being adopted by British sailors and sinking twice more. The third time he was found clinging to driftwood, ‘angry but quite unharmed.’
DQanP TIL During the 1990's, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unsuccessfully experimented with anthrax, botulinum toxin, cholera, Ebola, and Q fever.
b7oE TIL the Napoléonic heir to the French Imperial Throne is an Investment Banking Analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York.
pbn8 TIL Guatemalans were deliberately infected with STDs between 1945 & 1956 through US government programme. They were kept secret until discovered in 2010 by a college prof. The programme published no findings, did not inform those who were infected nor did it provide them with follow up medical care.