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TIL A traditional marriage custom in Congo forbids the bride and the groom from smiling during their entire wedding day.

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xaG7 TIL that since 2009, Iceland had a financial crisis: through the power if referendum, they ousted the local gov’t, declared they were not going to repay the banker’s loans, jailed those responsible, and wrote a new constitution without an political parties. (Democracy, you’re doing it right)
dDLjZ TIL the construction of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany was finished in 1880 after 632 years of work
R5gm4 TIL that Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a Japanese hiker survived 24 days on a mountain without food or water by going into a state of hibernation. Doctors believe this is the first known case of a human going into hibernation
VMDgG TIL Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
ADJml TIL: Fabio Lanzoni has played himself more times than a fictional character.