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TIL in Tibet it's traditional for a woman to be married to multiple husbands who were usually all brothers in order to keep the land within the same family under inheritance laws. The practice was technically outlawed in 1981 but has no penalties and isn't prosecuted.

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p8MeN TIL: Popup headlights were actually invented in the '30s. They came back in the 80's when auto manufacture needed a way to skirt minimum headlight height safety laws, and fell back out of fashion again due to modern regulations concerning headlights being on movable body work.
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