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TIL Lord Lyndhurst’s Act (1835) prohibited marriage to your dead wife's sister. This was repealed by the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907) [United Kingdom]

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PYWKG TIL Joseph Mazzello, the boy from "Jurassic Park", was originally going to be the robot boy David in the Stanley Kubrick directed version of "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence".
DQkv TIL In 2008 Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants, while playing for Florida State University, once played all nine positions in a game. During that game, he struck out the two batters he faced and hit a grand slam.
gMnZb TIL of Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable
nvlP TIL of a Brazillian boy who died after fapping 42 times non-stop. He was 16 when he died.
8aowZ TIL only 6 people are known to have ever survived a rabies infection.