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TIL mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the United States

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R744a TIL about the theory of inoculation and its uses in politics and advertising: introducing a weak form of an argument that can easily be thwarted in order to prepare the audience to disregard a stronger, full-fledged form of the argument from an opposing party
E1XgX TIL that the owner of the Café de la Rotonde in Paris would allow starving artists to pay for their drinks with a painting or drawing. In the 1900s the walls of the cafe would have been casually adorned with works now considered priceless.
REX6 TIL the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
VMNB0 TIL that in ancient Egypt, licorice was used as medicine
4yGo TIL it’s been over 30 years since we had a cooler than average month