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TIL Most people try to steal/poach someone else’s partner at least once. And even if the poacher fails, their target starts to view their current partner as less attractive, as a result of the attempted poaching.

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69WwX TIL During Wimbledon, more than 38.4 tons of strawberries (1.92 million strawberries to be precise) and 445kg of raspberries are picked and consumed during the 2 week tournament.
kOkP5 TIL On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was taken off shelves and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, for $6. Inside? “Literal feces, from an actual bull”, they said. The move - a protest against the 'buy anything' culture of Black Friday - led to 30,000 boxes of shit being sold in 2 hours flat
VBLMQ TIL Gangkhar Puensum; the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world, will likely never be climbed due to a ban on mountaineering in Bhutan 🇧🇹
8arp8 TIL on average over 100 Americans are killed with guns every day and that it's the leading cause of death for kids and teens.
nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.