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TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lost her virginity to her future husband, who at the time had a pregnant wife, at the cemetery at her mother's grave.

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gMKa7 TIL Under tribal law, fluency in Navajo is mandatory for candidates to the office of the President of the Navajo Nation
wLMMJ TIL: Fawns are born relatively odourless as a defence mechanism.
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