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TIL that creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death

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nWvA7 TIL the official crown of the Prince of Wales was made using a gold-plated ping-pong ball as the central orb
8GbG TIL that after a nuclear disaster in Japan in 1999, the operating company declined government funds and paid compensation itself based not on a legal liability but rather its moral responsibility.”
9YbWD TIL of Sweden Hills, a village in Tobetsu town, Ishikari subprefecture of Hokkaido Japan. Local residents adopted Dalarna Sweden tradition of wooden houses painted in Falu Red, celebration of MidSummer Festival & 'Kraftskiva' crayfish party.
6EMMX TIL Banach-Tarski Paradox: if you accept as true the Axiom of choice (i.e. from non-empty set you can always pick up a random element) then you could decompose a golden sphere into a finite number of pieces and, without any strecthing, reassemble these into two balls identical to the original one.
AYm7 TIL, Vicuna, the source of the world’s rarest fabric, can’t be farmed because the animals starve themselves in captivity.