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Jun 15, 2020

TIL married men are healthier than men who were never married or whose marriages ended in divorce or widowhood. Men who have marital partners also live longer than men without spouses.

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL a Peacock is a male Peafowl. A Peahen is a female, and together they have Peachicks.

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May 15, 2020

TIL Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth, being larger than all dinosaurs, and every single big sea animal from the past

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Mar 25, 2020

TIL Soap and water don't kill germs; they work by mechanically removing them from your hands. Running water by itself does a pretty good job of germ removal, but soap increases the overall effectiveness by pulling unwanted material off the skin and into the water.

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Mar 06, 2020

TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.

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Jan 12, 2020

TIL That drinking coffee or tea while eating fish or sushi will decrease the amount of mercury your body would absorb from the fish.

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Jan 06, 2020

TIL men who marry after 25 tend to live longer than men who marry younger.

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Oct 27, 2019

TIL All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to switch their sex, but will do so only to become the dominant female of a group.The change is irreversible.

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Sep 27, 2019

TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war is not actually a jellyfish, but a hydrozoan siphonophore. It's also not just one organism. It is made up of separate polyp organism colonies called zooids, each serving a specific purpose, like forming tentacles for locomotion or controlling digestion.

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Aug 29, 2019

TIL that "Letterlocking" was a technique used widely from the 13-18th centuries to fold and secure correspondence in such a way to prevent tampering during transit. A letterlocked paper, sealed with wax, becomes its own envelope. Video link is an example by MIT prof who has researched the practice.

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Aug 19, 2019

TIL usual painless joint cracking or popping does not represent an early form of arthritis, nor does it cause joint damage

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Aug 04, 2019

TIL Teotihuacan was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s. It had thousands of residential compounds and scores of pyramid-temples, comparable to the largest pyramids of Egypt. It contains a massive central road and buildings but oddly, no military structures

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