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TIL Around the 16th century, there was a chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.

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8aypG TIL in film editing, that in 1994 only 3 feature films had ever been edited digitally. By 1995 none had ever won an Oscar for best editing. In 1996 "The English Patient" was the first (edited by Walter Murch on the Avid). Since then every Oscar winner has been.except 1998's "Saving Private Ryan".
gMW84 TIL Jackie Chan once fled to the USA to avoid Hong Kong triads. He claims they once shot at him while he was getting off of a plane and that he later was surrounded by "more than 20 people ... with melon knives ... [I] confronted them with two guns and six grenades".
ZpDaR TIL about Mike Malloy. Known as “Iron Mike”, “Rasputin of the Bronx”, or simply “Mike the Durable”, he survived multiple attempts on his life by "acquaintances" to collect insurance money. They ultimately succeeded in killing him, but were convicted of their crimes.
5YrxD TIL Tool's CD Lateralus is composed so if you reorder the tracks using the Fibonacci sequence, you get a new album: "The Holy Gift"
oROZW TIL that New York (57), New Jersey (56), and Pennsylvania (48), three of the original 13 colonies, have had fewer than half the number of governors of South Carolina (117), another of the original 13