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TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War

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OoxDa TIL that in Bhutan, boys are encouraged to go “Night Hunting”, a practise where they attempt to sneak into the homes of girls to engage in sexual relations with them. If they are caught by the family however, they have to marry the girl.
6pPl TIL that Hugh Hefner’s oldest child Christie Hefner is old enough (63) to be his current wife’s (29) mother.
xV0xB TIL that the reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag; as one of the few independent African nations during the colonial period, the new countries of Africa looked to them for inspiration
1ajGD TIL that when the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire the some 200,000 bees that live in the roof were thought to be dead, but in fact they were still alive after the fire.
womPY TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.