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TIL Forty Is The Only Number With Its Letters In Alphabetical Order

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9YwpM TIL in 1901 Spain, a woman adopted a male identity and married another woman. The couple was later discovered and had to escape to Argentina. Their marriage certificate was never annulled, so this is the first recorded same-sex marriage in Spain, 100 years before it was legal.
xgaw TIL: there was a war in congo from 1998 to 2003 that claimed the life of 5.7 million people, the deadliest since WW2.
OoRwL TIL that for 33 years scientists have been studying a common ancestor populations of E. coli in lab constant conditions which now surpasses 60,000 generations. In 2003 the bacteria began to consume a previously ignored carbon source that had been present in their environment from the start.