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TIL that although it was once a common practice, among Europe's current kings, queens and heirs apparent, only Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein married a member of a foreign dynasty, as did the abdicated Juan Carlos I of Spain.

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9wKKG TIL the Pirahã tribe has a very unique culture and language. Among other unusual features, they appear to be the world’s only people who lack words for numbers or any concept of counting. They also have no past tense, no way of describing colors, and no concept of the ancient past or distant future.
KjW9 TIL Because so many people jumped off the Mapo Bridge in Seoul, Samsung paid to put up signs which would light up and greet people, hoping to deter suicide. Unfortunately, the suicide rate off the Mapo Bridge was six times higher the following year.
bbj9 TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flys keep killing farm animals.
epee5 TIL about Project X-Ray, also known as the Bat Bomb, which was an experimental WW2 weapon developed by the US. The concept was to drop hundreds of bats with timed explosives attached to them, let them roost in Japanese attics, and then ignite the explosives to make the houses ignite.
m1d0Y TIL about the Egg fried rice protests by Chinese internet users against the government, occurring yearly around October 24, the birthday of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, or around November 25, the date of his death.