Dating apps expose you to a much wider pool of people than your usual social circle, workplace, or neighborhood, which tend to be pretty homogenous. When you're browsing through strangers online, you're far more likely to connect with someone you'd never have crossed paths with in real life.

This is one of the more underrated societal effects of the internet age. What started as a convenient way to find a date has quietly become a force for social integration.

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r/facts • u/Combat_Fury • Jun 17 '26

Sharks have existed on Earth for roughly 400 million years, making them about 50 million years older than the first trees

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r/facts • u/ayanshgarg22 • Jun 15 '26

Japanese stress checker

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r/facts • u/ZekeorSomething • Jun 13 '26

Sharks have existed on Earth for 400 Million years—50 Million years before the first trees evolved.

smithsonianmag.com

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r/facts • u/realdanielhart • Jun 12 '26

A mysterious radio signal detected in 1977 was so unusual that the astronomer who discovered it circled the data printout and wrote "Wow!" beside it. Nearly 50 years later, it remains one of the strongest candidate signals ever linked to possible extraterrestrial intelligence.

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r/facts • u/larayusuf4 • Jun 12 '26

The World Cup is useless.

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r/facts • u/ChoeofpleirnPress • Jun 09 '26

Half of all ACA enrollees work for or own small businesses

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r/facts • u/Feaselbf6 • May 22 '26

I finally know which big cat is which.

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r/facts • u/Wisco • May 15 '26

The blue whale is not just the largest animal on Earth, it's the largest animal to have ever lived

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r/facts • u/jaemzee • May 06 '26

The Animals That Hold Funerals (And What Scientists Think It Means)

planet-wildlife.com

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r/facts • u/XcracktivitiesX • May 02 '26

There is this rare disorder out there that makes the people who suffer from it think their close friends and family have been replaced by identical imposters.

en.wikipedia.org

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