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TIL the odds of divorce are lowest with zero or one premarital [sex] partners

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NXaJ TIL that the first European to describe the circulatory system was burned at the stake for heresy with his own books as the fuel.
neXY TIL there is an organization called ‘After the Rapture Pet Care’, in which Christians may register their pets for non-believer volunteers to feed and care for, in case of Rapture.
GA9pg TIL: In 2020, a study was performed by asking pedestrians to cross a street hundreds of times and found that the likelihood of a car slowing down decreases by 3% for every $1000 in car value. The study followed up a Finnish study which concluded Audi, BMW, and Mercedes drivers were unempathetic.
1aDrV TIL Cruentation, the understanding that dead bodies would bleed in the presence of their murderer, was a common belief in the Middle Ages.
DQK9v TIL A section of Dallas settled by former slaves was pronounced “Ellum” instead of Elm Street by residents and the name stuck. In the 1920s Deep Ellum started to become a destination for jazz and the blues and has over 30 live music venues today in the space of only a few miles