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TIL that In 1963, a 16-year-old mailed a survey to 150 novelists, asking if they intentionally planted symbolism in their work. Jack Kerouac, Ralph Ellison, Ray Bradbury and other notable names responded.

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eoa5 TIL in a 2014 study of 3,000 married couples, Emory University discovered that couples who spent more than $20K on their wedding are roughly 46% more likely to get divorced than couples who spent $5-10K.
jN8dM TIL of Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman who had been shot in the face by her husband. In 2004, after a 22 hour operation, doctors managed to replace 80% of her face with the face of another woman who had just died. This embarked the first ever successful face transplant in the USA.
wLxw1 TIL: You can be allergic to allergy medicine
e0pO5 Sea creatures in Mariana Trench (the deepest place on Earth) have been found with man-made fibres in their stomachs for the first time, showing that no part of the world’s seas are now untouched by human rubbish.
GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.