rNomM TIL that since the 1950s the median age at first marriage has risen from about 23 to 30 for men and from about 20 to 28 for women, an increase of roughly 7 to 8 years for both, with the male–female gap shrinking slightly.
NXo46 TIL that Second Class Titanic survivor Rosa Pinsky (Róża Pińska, or Pinskaya), a Polish Jew, is believed to have been killed in a concentration camp during WWII
l7kYa TIL in 1970, NFL player Houston Ridge sued his former team, the San Diego Chargers, for $250,000 after being permanently disabled from a hip injury during a 1969 game. He had felt no pain and continued playing because of the mix of amphetamines, barbiturates, and steroids given to him by the team.
8eW8b TIL Steve Urkel was originally conceived as a one-episode character
P1G9Z TIL All thoroughbred horses in the Northern Hemisphere have their birthdays observed on January 1. In the Southern Hemisphere, horses have their birthdays on August 1.
ep87g TIL about Colin Watson, a rare egg collector who stole the eggs of rare and wild birds from protected wildlife sites throughout Great Britain, amassing the largest collection in the UK. He died in 2006, falling out of a tree attempting to steal the eggs of a protected species.
VBygG TIL that a woman from New Zealand was detained in Kazakhstan because officials believed it to be a state of Australia. When they asked her to point it out on a map, they provided a map where New Zealand wasn't present.
X0xDX TIL in 2011 a woman named Clara Meadmore, who was the world's oldest virgin at the time, died at the age of 108. Regarding her views on sex, she said that she "was never interested in it."
OG1nL TIL that gut microbes have evolved ways to hijack neural mechanisms to control the hosts behavior, such as cravings. In one case, microbes were found to cause rats to be sexually attracted to cat urine to make it more likely for them to be eaten by cats, which the microbes need for reproduction.
69nNY TIL Eggo waffle sales in the U.S. increased by nearly 14% after Stranger Things Season 1 aired, driven by Eleven’s on-screen obsession with the brand.
wov5J TIL Prince - Purple Rain was never recorded in a studio. The released album version is an edited and overdubbed recording of the first live performance of the song in 1983 at First Avenue in Minneapolis. This version notably has an extra verse.
R5Jaw TIL In 2000, while working in the Naica mine in Mexico, about 300 meters underground, two miners accidentally discovered an astonishing chamber unlike any other. Cave of the Crystals