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TIL about the 1937 marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead, causing national attention after an article was written in Life magazine. It led to the state of Tennessee introducing a new law setting the minimum marriage age as 14. Other US jurisdictions followed similarly.

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oRwJA TIL about Charvaka, an atheisitc and anti-clerical Indian philosophy which rejected the Vedas and believed that all perceivable matter was all that existed in the universe. Adherents as a result were told to pursue a life of hedonism with no ethical or religous qualms as they exist to control joy
jN90N TIL During the Middle Ages, small triangular-shaped stones — thought to be the tongues of snakes turned to stone by Saint Paul — were highly sought after as cures for poison and plagues. Centuries later, the “tongue stones” were identified as fossilized shark teeth.
1aPP7 TIL that a cyber attack at the London 2012 Olympic games was thwarted as the child hacker was called away for tea by his mother.
XOvr TIL that if you shine a flashlight at the ground at night, any spiders that are facing you will have their eyes glow green!
rRJv1 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer who was responsible for assassinating the first federal judge to have been killed in the 20th century