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TIL The star of the First Season of The Bachelorette, Trista Sutter is still married to the man she picked in the finale 15 years ago. They now have 2 kids.

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jN0la TIL that computers apparently might not be adding to our productivity nearly as much as a lot of inventions from the 1800s...apparently things like running water were a MASSIVE deal. Saved people like 8 hours of labor a week.
75E7 TIL the process of seppuku, suicide by disemboweling to preserve honor, eventually became so ritualized that the abdominal cut was not even needed. The samurai merely reached for a fan instead of a knife, and doing so signaled the merciful beheading strike by the samurai’s assistant.
gMNr9 TIL In his mid-70s, Goya created dark paintings not intended for public display, including "Two Old Ones Eating Soup"
vEy4 TIL that the disease you are avoiding by washing your new clothes before wearing is cancer. Many clothes are treated with formaldehyde during production to prevent wrinkles and mustiness before being sold.
9wVwX TIL The Germans started shooting their bullets backwards in response to the British using tanks. These reversed bullets were blunt and thus wouldn't be as easily deflected, denting armor and spitting fragments at the crew.