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TIL of a Boston Marriage. A 19th Century term for two women living together, independent of financial support from a man.

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mxA9E TIL for centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland sheltered Jews persecuted and expelled from various European countries. About three-quarters of the world's Jews lived in Poland by the middle of the 16th century.
PrGe TIL That in the Amazon, butterflies will drink the tears of turtles to provide necessary sodium in their diet.
E1pE7 TIL, a new technology was created for the film Inside Out, a virtual camera lens based on an actual camera lens, so that the animation appears to be filmed on an actual camera
X0wJ8 TIL about the liking gap, which is that people you meet like you more than you think. Psychologists found that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."
8kwa TIL A retired U.S. Army Officer led a 12-member mercenary group to successfully rescue his mother’s friend who had been kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Malaysia