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TIL that weddings that cost more than $20,000 were found to be correlated with a higher rate of divorce than less expensive weddings.

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W7d9B TIL Sonora Carver; one of the first female horse divers, continued horse diving for 11 more years after being blinded from hitting the water with open eyes off of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Horse diving was a stunt where a horse would be ridden off a 40-60 foot tower into a body of water.
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