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TIL 80% of all marriages in history are between second cousins or closer

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0Ea1 TIL Lunchables reduced the size of meat slices in their lunches by almost 50% to increase profit.
QJO6d TIL Elvis Presley Never Wrote Any of His Own Songs despite being one of the most recognizable musicians of all time.
yQB88 TIL the use of Hun as a pejorative term for Germans comes from a speech made by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900 to troops going to fight the Boxer Rebellion in which he referenced Attila and his Huns making themselves feared in China
N7QR1 TIL Mithridates VI was a king who in an attempt to protect himself from assassins built up an immunity to poison by dosing himself with them. After the Romans stormed his complex he tried to kill himself with poison but it failed and he had to get his bodyguard to do it for him.
9wrmX TIL the last Grand Duchess of Russia passed away in 1960 in a small Toronto apartment