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wLMAY TIL the odds of divorce are lowest with zero or one premarital [sex] partners
XEx8r TIL that the 1936 film 'Circus' - Stalin's favourite and the most successful of all time within the Soviet Union - was about an American woman with a Mixed Race son, who finds acceptance in the USSR. The movie's climax had the boy being held and sung to lovingly by various Soviet ethnic groups.
gOM9 TIL that Sati, a practice where a widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre, still exist in rural parts of India.
7pEb TIL that the doctor that claimed a link between vaccines and autism made up data
X06Yk TIL that in the U.S. an employer can forbid you from having a lunch break during work.