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TIL that out of 1,231 societies studied in the Ethnographic Atlas, only 186 were strictly monogamous (one partner for life), while 588 often practiced polygyny (men had multiple wives), and 453 did so occasionally. Historically, having more than one wife was far more common than monogamy.

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pV9A TIL the town of Muff, Ireland has a diving club
LkdKv TIL Disney was planning to buy Twitter but then decided to cancel the deal because of the “nastiness” on the social media platform.
776p TIL that in 1978, Jefferson Starship had to cancel a German concert because Grace Slick was too drunk, causing the crowd to riot. They performed the next day, but she was so drunk that she groped female audience members and taunted the crowd for losing WWII. The following day, she quit the band.
r0M4 TIL Tom Cruise grew up in near poverty, and he was beaten by his father, who Cruise has stated was a bully and coward.
YMKB TIL that Magnetospirillium magneticum is a free-living bacteria which has the ability to actively take in iron, convert it to magnetic magnetite, align it like a backbone along its body, and travel through its environment using magnetic fields.