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TIL Female Koalas engage heavily in lesbian sex

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5Y6Vp TIL that in medieval Romania there was a little chamber in the grounds of a fortified church in which couples, whi were thinking about divorce were send and locked up to six weeks in order to repair their relationship. Suprisingly it was very effective.
oBrME TIL of the Bridegroom's Oak. A 500yo tree with its own postal address, those seeking love can both send love letters as well as check and reply to those they wish. It receives around 1000 letters a year and has allegedly been responsible for at least 100 marriages.
Wkoxd TIL T.G.I. Friday's founder Alan Stillman, despite having no restaurant business experience, opened the restaurant because the neighborhood he lived in had many young, single people and he wanted to meet women.
xVY4B TIL that in Tongan mythology the God Tafakula defeated his enemy gods by straddling an island. He then bent over, to show his anus, which shone brightly like the sun, scaring off the other gods.
Rka6 TIL that there is an Outer Space Treaty which states that no one on Earth can own any celestial body, including the Moon, because it is deemed as a “common heritage for all mankind”.