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TIL "Wakanda" is the supreme being from American Indian mythology

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BrLBx TIL that in the 18th century getting a divorce in England was so expensive that lower class men sold their wives on markets instead. Most of the time the woman agreed to it and the buyer was usually the womans new lover. Sometimes a bidding war could start tough and a stranger could win.
ANANo TIL that humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to smelling rain than sharks are at smelling blood
LQXR9 TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body
KYEAw TIL that Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson.
R4a4 TIL the poverty line in America was designed assuming every family had a housewife who was a skillful cook.