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TIL Bulgarians refer to bucket hats as "idiotka", idiot hats

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0w8xA TIL: According to the Huichol tradition, when a woman had her first child the husband squatted in the rafters of the house, or in the branches of a tree, directly above her, with ropes attached to his scrotum. As she went into labor pain, the wife pulled vigorously on the ropes.
xN1b TIL the city with the lowest marriage rate in the United States is Washington D.C.
rRmve TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She won a total of $17million, and has since moved to Las Vegas.
VB1Am TIL that in 1984, the Japanese Army Veterans Association, in an attempt to refute wartime atrocities, interviewed former WWII soldiers. Instead of denial, the soldiers freely admitted and described atrocities committed, resulting in the association publishing an apology the following year.
PYD7E TIL that beached whales can die by their skeleton collapsing under their own weight, causing the ribs to compress and subsequent asphyxiation