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TIL Brides used to remove their entire teeth on their wedding days as a wedding gift.

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Ooe87 TIL: Wales can trace its throne in continual rulership back to the Romano-British, making it technically the last Roman rump state left in Europe.
9Yga7 TIL a majority of indigenous mainland Americans prefer the terms "Indian" and "American Indian" to "Native American". Many tribes include Indian in their formal titles.
E1YOp TIL that American wine had a terrible reputation until an event in 1976, called the Judgment of Paris. Wine industry luminaries blind tasted California and renowned French wines, side by side, and scored them. Surprisingly, the winning red and white wines were both from California.
0d9AL TIL that a depressed teen convinced his friend, using six made-up online characters, to kill him. Totaling over 56,000 lines of text, he told his him that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with a middle-aged spy.
VMxRQ TIL a woman was killed by a tiger in Beijing during a safari drive through. One woman exited the car and the tiger grabbed her and her mom tried to rescue her and died. The daughter then sued the zoo.