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TIL that Charles Darwin married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and together they had ten children.

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NXpkP TIL An estimated 10 to 15 percent of abducted Africans died on their way to the coast from the interior during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Historians also estimate that between 15 and 25 percent of the enslaved Africans bound for the Americas died aboard slave ships.
8R9G TIL: An American charity pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
awrJ9 TIL that Durex released a service called SOS condom, where condoms would get delivered to houses in 2 hours. It launched in Dubai, but the government banned it in a week. They ran an internet poll to vote on where it would be next, but trolls voted for the city “Batman” and won, and it was canned.
wLb9P TIL there are no known cases of a moon orbiting another moon, although it is possible in theory. One of the proposed names for these submoons is moonmoon.
gr1R9 TIL the Nyah-Nyah Nyah-Nyah Nyaaah Nyaaah teasing song melody is used all over the world! (Ring around the Rosie tune)