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TIL that for $700, girls can get their hymen rebuilt to fake virginity when getting married in China.

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VM6xm TIL that Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) was probably the first pope who used personal arms.
ZpLdv TIL In 1966 Lee Cummings, the nephew of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, started his own chain of chicken restaurants in Ohio after developing his own chicken recipe. As of today Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken has 131 locations.
GYMP4 TIL when drummer Vinny Appice joined Black Sabbath, he had to learn their songs on stage, using hastily written notes when playing unfamiliar songs. During one of the shows, a rainstorm made the ink run on Appice's notes
GYPeN TIL About Mathias Rust: A West German teenager who in 1987; sought to create an "imaginary bridge" to the Eastern Bloc by flying a Cessna 172 to the Soviet Union and landing on a bridge next to Red Square
p4d8 TIL when a new queen bee is available, the old queen is enclosed in a ball of bees until she overheats and dies. Also known as “cuddle death”.