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TIL Engagement rings evolved as a form of “virginity insurance” in the event that the groom left a bride-to-be “damaged” and unmarried.

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MeE10 TIL about Zhang Yongming, a serial killer in China. After killing some of his eleven victims he butchered them and sold their flesh at markets calling it "Ostrich meat."
VrQ0 TIL that John F Kennedy, C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day and that a book called Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley, had those three In Purgatory engaged in a philosophical discussion on faith.
X0e9E TIL, Robert Patrick, the actor of the Terminator 2 T-1000 graduated from Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan, and he previously didn't like acting in childhood, one of the reasons was because he refused to wear green tights for a Robin Hood play.
7NRM TIL that the ability to read music uses different parts of the brain than reading words, and there are cases where a stroke has caused people to lose one ability but not the other
nRmP TIL Steve Jobs could have avoided a premature death from cancer by having it properly treated, he refused it for 9 months, believing an alternative-medicine diet would be better. It was one of Steve Jobs’ most notable regrets.