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TIL that wedding days often used to end with a "bedding ceremony" where friends and family watched the couple enter bed and, on occasion, witnessed their first sexual intercourse

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a8EaM TIL in the original Tarzan movie, Adventures of Tarzan (1921), the scene of Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln) fighting and killing the lion was real.
5jYn TIL that driving while drunk destroyed the Soviet spy network in the UK. After being arrested in London in 1971, Oleg Lyalin panicked and offered the names of every Russian spy. The UK government expelled 105 people from the country, and the USSR network in Britain “never recovered”.
ZpwbG TIL the Colorado River doesn’t make it to the ocean anymore — since 1960
KYdnB TIL, after U.S. President Garfield was shot, his doctors were so negligent and gave him such a bad infection that his assassin openly confessed at trial to the shooting, but argued that Garfield’s doctors had actually done the killing
9xXD TIL the Paris Mosque helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs