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TIL if you are Jewish and can trace your ancestry back to the Spanish Inquisition (1492), you qualify today for Spanish citizenship.

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9Y17D TIL that the shortest marriage in recorded history was 3 minutes. On the way out of the courthouse, the bride tripped over and fell. Instead of helping her up, the groom called her "stupid". On the spot the bride insisted the magistrate annul the wedding, and the magistrate complied
KYNd6 TIL that ~8 billion people are estimated to have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), meaning they carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria without exhibiting active disease symptoms (~25% of the worlds population)
Mebw7 TIL The WWI Vickers Machine Gun, Used by the British from 1913-1968, was so reliable that in one test, they fired it continuously for 7 days and 7 nights
d8nEr TIL about Derek Bentley, who was hanged on 28 January 1953 for a murder he did not commit.
kOx4e TIL Hypnic jerks (that jolt you get that wakes you up just before you fall asleep) may well be left over from when we were tree-dwelling monkeys: the jerk reflex prevented us from falling asleep on an unsafe branch.