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TIL Shania Twain divorced her husband after he cheated with her best friend. Later Twain married the ex-husband of that same best friend.

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GdBJ TIL the optimal strategy of finding a good partner is to reject the first 37% of potentials, and then pick the first person better than anyone seen so far
4XdG6 TIL of Ruth Coker Burks aka the "Cemetery Angel" who at the height of the AIDS crisis put up her own money to take care of and buy medicine for AIDS patients and buried over 40 people in her family's cemetery plot, most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.
AXed TIL due to its popularity with Muslims, until 1600 church leaders were calling coffee “the bitter invention of Satan”. Upon tasting coffee Pope Clement VIII declared, “This devil’s drink is so delicious…we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.”
OGjw1 TIL that King Æthelstan arranged marriages for several of his sisters to European royalty, including the future Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, making his court one of the most internationally connected in Anglo-Saxon England.
v1ANR TIL in the sea between Australia and New Zealand, there's an island taller than it is wide. Ball's Pyramid only measures 300m across, yet peaks at 562m in elevation.