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TIL It's estimated that 45% of women ages 25–44 will be single by 2030, according to a study by Morgan Stanley.

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rRpDM TIL The Philippines sent 1,000 troops to the Korean war as crew for US tanks. Tanks never came and they were forced to face 40,000 North Korean and Chinese soldiers during the Great Spring Offensive and managed to hold their portion of the line and get surrounded as the line beside them collapsed.
vPNBr TIL Alex Hirsch’s (creator of Gravity Falls) first TV role was actually on the Late Show with David Letterman. He had won his High School bird Calling competition and was 17.
M6nm TIL Soviet NKVD (KGB) chief Genrikh Yagoda was arrested and shot in 1938. His successor, Nikolai Yezhov, was arrested and shot in 1940. His successor, Lavrentiy Beria, was arrested and shot in 1953.
D1rYg TIL that bestselling author James Patterson is the one who wrote the famous Toys R Us line "I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid"
VMj04 TIL about Cellular Automata: simple programs that produce complex results. They were so magnificent they led Stephen Wolfram to believe that the universe ran on similar principles.