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TIL the early Christian church wed same-sex couples, going against a Roman law against the practice, through the 14th Century.

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E1NjP TIL the animal with the smallest known brain-to-body mass ratio, generally considered to be an accurate approximation of intelligence, is called the "Bony-eared Assfish"
4kVMo TIL U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, at the controls of his rocket-powered Bell X-1, named “Glamorous Glennus” for his wife, breaks the sound barrier. Yeager achieves a top speed of Mach 1.07 before descending safely.
1L54 TIL that Apollo 12 astronaut Alan L Bean accidentally destroyed the mission’s TV camera by pointing it at the sun, left several rolls of exposed film on the moon by mistake, and was hit on the head by a 16mm film camera when the crew splashed down on Earth.
gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Lk6VP TIL the country with the highest percentage of native English speakers is Ireland, followed by UK and New Zealand. Canada ranks as only 56% due to the prevalence of French and First Nations languages.