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TIL King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears to have cemented a political alliance with Egypt.

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d8Nx8 TIL that the sound version of a black hole is called a 'dumb hole'
1Djd TIL scientists believed that during the Inflationary Epoch, roughly 10^-36 seconds after the Big Bang, the universe expanded by a factor of at least 10^26 — 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, becoming the size of a grapefruit.
bkra TIL that a woman in Brazil filled her vagina with poison in an attempt to kill her husband during oral sex.
VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
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