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TIL Spartan law forbade the marriage of a girl until she was in her late teens or early 20s. The reasons were to ensure the birth of healthy children; and to spare women the risks and lifelong health damage associated with adolescent pregnancy.

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9w8kD TIL a large number of the people we see fired in the film 'Up in the Air' (2009) are not actors, but real people who were recently laid off. They were instructed to respond as they did when they were laid off, or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had.
0V8R TIL that fire burns in a sphere without gravity to stoke it
x9W1 TIL the Catholic Church officially recognises that a photo of Mother Teresa cured a woman of cancer…a claim disputed by her doctor because the woman had been taking medicine and it wasn’t even cancer
woL56 TIL Daniel Day-Lewis said that his second Oscar-winning performance as vicious oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood was heavily inspired by Bogart’s portrayal of Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
M7AR0 TIL that every 50 years, the flowering of a species of bamboo in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar causes a ''flood'' of black rats that feed on the nutritious bamboo seeds and widespread famine. The last bloom was in 2006.