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TIL Lesbian couples are more likely to formalize their relationships, as female couples account for more than two-thirds of same-sex couples who marry.

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9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat
gMGe8 TIL male argonauts develop a special arm for copulation in a pouch located under their eye and upon finding a mate they detach that arm and place it on the female. Their detached arm then crawls, with a life of its own, into her mantle for fertilization. Researchers found 38 arms inside one female.
EEko TIL that at 10 years old Mike Tyson bought $700 worth of birds after robbing someone’s home. He later got into his first fight after someone stole and decapitated one of them.
b6GJ9 TIL During Elvis Presley's funeral, a car crashed into a group of attending fans, killing 2.
Rle4 TIL: While shooting The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) often spent days hiking to the film’s remote locations, in costume and carrying his sword, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.