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TIL James Blunt put his sister on eBay as a “damsel in distress” when she couldn’t get to a funeral. the guy who won had a helicopter. He flew her to the funeral. Three years later they were getting married

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b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
9xbp TIL Most of McDonald’s prizes from the late 80s til 2000 were won by employees in the promotional firm they hired to run them.
OoZDY TIL Sardinian women performed bloody euthanasia service to elderly or sick people by hitting them with a hammer in the head
mxo4M TIL that Kyrgyzstan is more distant from the ocean than any other nation. At a minimum of 1620 miles from any ocean, it is the most land-locked state in the world
epyoD TIL that until 1973, it was legal in Texas for a husband to kill someone caught having sex with his wife, "provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated".