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TIL that in Tennessee in 2001, three 10 year old girls legally married three men in their mid-20s to early-30s. In 2006 a 27 year old woman legally wedded an 11 year old boy.

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8VOZ TIL Marvel has a hero named Squirrel Girl, who in her first appearance defeated Doctor Doom by commanding an army of squirrels to attack him. She has also defeated the likes of Wolverine, Deadpool, Galactus and Thanos offscreen.
rNGPW TIL that during WWII Boeing built a huge factory and camouflaged it by building a completely fake town on top of it so it would look like a suburban neighborhood from the air
VMRp8 TIL of Salomon Klass, a Finnish Jewish captain was nominated for the German Iron Cross who stopped a Soviet counterattack 7 times during the Continuation War between Finland, Germany and the USSR. He was among three Finnish Jews to get nominated for the award, they all refused it.
KjnR TIL a high school in Allen, TX built a $60 million football stadium that was forced to close after 18 months due to “construction failures” and “deficient design.” It reopened over a year later and the Allen Eagles have yet to lose a game in their new stadium.
1v6W TIL that Buddhists have been selecting monks to study science in order to create a curriculum including science education. This will be the first change in Tibetan monastery and scholastic curriculum in 600 years.