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TIL Multiple places in Europe have a tradition of making Love-Spoons, which are decoratively carved spoons given to women by their suitors.

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OogO6 TIL of Chekhov's Gun - a dramatic principle that nothing unnecessary should be in a scene: if the author mentions a gun hanging over the fireplace in chapter 1, it needs to go off in chapter 2 or 3
RaZ9 TIL that a man once wrestled a bear, had his leg mutilated, was left for dead, woke up, set the wound on his own, and crawled over 200 miles for six weeks back to his home town, and then set out to find the men who left him to die
xL1g TIL that the often-quoted factoid, “there are more people alive today than have ever died” is completely false. In fact, the living will probably never outnumber the dead.
Qpxp TIL: the birth certificate was invented as a way to verify people’s ages in order to enforce new child labor restrictions
6yQw TIL Kim Jong-un’s older brother Kim Jong-nam was supposed to be their father’s heir until he tried to sneak out of North Korea to visit Disneyland.