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TIL after coming to the U.S as part of operation paperclip, Wernher Von Braun married his first cousin and moved to Alabama

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gwDA TIL Groomsmen (specifically bride’s-groomsmen) were originally at weddings to protect the bride from being captured by another suitor
YQKr TIL that Royal Mail, the postal service in the UK, operated a tiny underground metro just for shuttling letters between eight London post offices
wo6mW TIL in 1854, Dr. Jules Baillarger depicted a mental illness expressed by switches between mania and depression. He named it dual-form insanity. Dr. Jean Falret described the same illness but named it circular insanity. They spent their lives disputing who first conceptualized it.
b1NN TIL that the guy who got Pluto not to be a planet anymore wrote a book called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. He is also behind the discovery of the new Ninth planet.
meZO TIL in the Siege of Eger (1552) against the Ottomans. The Hungarians stuffed a mill wheel with explosives and fuses that was rolled into the oncoming enemy and created absolute panic.