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TIL that the term "Honey Moon" comes from drinking fermented honey for a lunar cycle to improve fertility after getting married. It should have been called "Mead and Breed".

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x6kX1 TIL in the 1800s, Mary Toft convinced doctors she gave birth to 17 rabbits by inserting their body parts into her uterus. The bizarre hoax was uncovered, and Toft charged with fraud. Her story, known as "Rabbit Woman of Godalming," has been the subject of literature and art.
4kZng TIL that Rubberducking is a technique used by programmers to help find errors in their code. Explaining their code to a duck or any other inanimate object out loud can help them spot issues as they talk it through.
6R4W TIL Russell Brand ended his marriage to Katy Perry via text … has never spoken to her since.
9wBR7 TIL that there are small groups in Britain and France trying to revive the early medieval Celtic Church via the Syriac (Middle Eastern) rites. At one point in the ‘60s, the so-called “Celtic Orthodox Church” had “ten bishops and two to three lay followers”.
OMGg TIL The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war in US history.