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TIL that minors who get married in the U.S. can't file for divorce without parental consent

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ej6g TIL During the Civil War, Upon being told General Grant was a drunkard who enjoyed Whiskey, President Lincoln said ‘I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals’.
5YDDk TIL the first major labor strike in the US was organized by 102 women at a textile mill in Rhode Island.
9wY9D TIL that there are official radio adaptations of the Star Wars original trilogy released in 1981, 1983, and 1996 with Mark Hamill and several other stars returning to do the voice acting
KOEKB TIL that, in addition to the Taj Mahal, there is the Jal Mahal, a huge, 300 year old compound sitting in the middle of the lake.
yQAOl TIL Axel F, the soundtrack to Beverly Hills cop, is written in the key of F