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TIL Kissing is more important than SEX in making sure a relationship lasts longer

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10YP TIL there is a fine dining restaurant located inside a gas station in Texas. Sometime around 2003, Nigerian born Franson Nwaeze was denied a bank loan to open a restaurant. Undeterred, Franson applied for a loan to open a gas station instead, which the bank approved. The result: Chef Point.
rVWy TIL: Some birds use cigarette butts as an insecticide for their nests
XdO8 TIL The ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne was so afraid that the surgeon John Hunter wanted his body dissection and display, he arranged to be buried at sea. Hunter snatched Byrne’s cadaver on the way to the burial, reduced Byrne’s body to its skeleton and put it in his museum where it still remains
v1v18 TIL that the term "pipe dream" is a reference to the insane dreams people have when smoking opium
WNBo TIL Bernie Madoff’s attorneys collected $700 million in fees - millions that could have gone to his victims.