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TIL Shania Twain married the husband of the woman her own husband was cheating with

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a4KZ TIL that in 1932, a small Austrian town greatly reduced unemployment by issuing a new currency that would automatically lose 1 percent of its value for each month that it went unspent. Hundreds of towns in the U.S. set up similar systems, but in 1933 President Roosevelt outlawed them.
1aKR8 TIL about Ferret-legging, where contestants shove live ferrets down their pants, and the winner is whoever can stand all the biting and scratching for the longest time. The ferrets must have all their 34 teeth and all their claws. Neither ferret nor contestant can be drugged in any way.
rRV8x TIL The best pictures we have of the Mt. St. Helens eruption came from a photographer that was close to the eruption. He realized there was nothing he could do, so he took as many pictures as he could, put his camera back in the bag, and used his body to protect it from the ash.
R75Ka TIL not to underestimate a 5 year old girl playing against boys.