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TIL a study on Tinder found that men who take time to write a good bio get four times as many matches as those who don't have one.

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MeaDm TIL A new study concludes that Wealthy, successful people from privileged backgrounds often misrepresent their origins as working-class in order to tell a ‘rags to riches’ story resulting from hard work and perseverance, rather than social position and intergenerational wealth
grrl8 TIL the height of a Smurf is 3 apples tall
ZpPOB TIL that the growing difference in car sizes in the USA means that as many as 25% of deaths would be prevented if everyone drove the same type of car — or 9,300 people/year
GX9j TIL that you’re never actually touching anything. Your atoms’ electrons repel objects when they’re 10^-8 meters away from you, but you can feel the force of the resistance.
KMJ9 TIL that the map of the world we use may not be the best representation of the world - the Peters Projection Map is area accurate