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TIL during the medieval period, after a wedding the bride and groom were provided enough mead (honey wine) to last one full moon, coining the term ‘honeymoon’.

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1abPW TIL about the Bushy Tree diagram, a retrospective and interactive history of visual interactive computing systems
69dpX TIL of a former taxi driver turned billionaire who purchased a $170 million painting with his American Express card, earning enough reward points for a lifetime of first-class travel for his family.
wJ06 TIL After President Kennedy’s autopsy, his brain and all autopsy tissues and materials dissapeared. To this day it’s unknown what happened to them.
GjL4 TIL Pinocchio was originally a serial where Pinocchio was generally a rebellious whiny brat, Geppetto was eaten by a shark, the cricket was squashed to death, Pinocchio was hanged by thieves, and his nose growing was a minor point happening only twice and not always due to lying
EyLx TIL America’s poverty line was designed with the thought that every American household had a housewife who was a skilled cook, and has only ever been adjusted for inflation.