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TIL Bulgaria has a traditional “bridal market” where girls as young as 13 meet and are sold to husbands

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0d9e5 TIL that not only autistic people have problems with social etiquette, allistic people (non-autistic) tend to avoid engage in social interaction with them.
ne0Jo Today I learned the BBC runs a pidgin English news service.
eVE6 TIL there was a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns who escaped Australian prison so many times, they built a special cell just for him. He escaped that as well.
bra7 TIL Congress was banned from editing Wikipedia
e8m6 TIL that an illegally corked bat was confiscated during the 1st inning of a 1994 Indians vs White Sox game and stored in the umpire’s room for later examination. A teammate crawled 30 feet through the stadium ductwork and swapped out the bat, and an investigation led by a former FBI agent ensued.