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TIL In Kyrgyztan, men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife.

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y9ma TIL the Mary Poppins word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious breaks down into: super- “above”, cali- “beauty”, fragilistic- “delicate”, expiali- “to atone”, and -docious “educable”, with the roughly meaning, “atoning for educability through delicate beauty.
4lxN TIL that there is a boiling river, deep in the Amazon, that was only formally documented in scientific literature in 2011 despite being known by locals for much, much longer
WkOkX TIL the "D" in the SD card logo is actually an optical disc, because the image was borrowed from Toshiba's unsuccessful Super Density (SD) Disc standard.
p8vdA TIL that some women are allergic to semen and that treatment for this allergy involves getting regular semen injections under the skin in your arm
W76AN TIL there's a Bob's Big Boy statue in the middle of a field near Cody, Wyoming