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TIL that Shania Twain divorced her husband when he was caught having an affair with her best friend. Twain ended up marrying her now former best friend’s ex-husband.

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gvZ8 TIL Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
50G8 TIL that in America in 1960, 30% of all brides gave birth within 8.5 months of their wedding
eKKb TIL A former teacher named Mohan Kumar would befriend young women, have sex with them and convince them to take a “morning after pill”. Little did they know, the morning after pills were cyanide capsules made by him. He killed twenty women this way.
rNK51 TIL it was illegal to sell beef-on-the-bone in the UK between 1997 and 1999, in an attempt to limit the spread of mad cow disease
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