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TIL US men work on average a half hour longer then women per day

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Rw9Q TIL that if you hit a moose with your car in Maine, you get first dibs on the carcass
9dam TIL The guy who sang “She Blinded Me With Science” believes the Earth is flat.
R5B09 TIL that Cunard intended to name its largest ship after the late Queen Victoria. It asked the current King for permission to name it after "Britain's greatest queen", but the King, thinking they were referring to his wife, Queen Mary, agreed. Cunard was forced to change the name to the Queen Mary.
yQ79a TIL about Homo Syntheticus, the idea that we will soon take control of evolution away from nature and replace it with cybernetics & genetic engineering.
XEWEP TIL as the child of an international lawyer, Jeopardy! "Greatest of All Time" champion and interim host Ken Jennings grew up in South Korea and Singapore. He only began living in the United States permanently upon admission to the University of Washington in the 1990s.