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TIL in 2020 68% of new marriages in India were arranged whereas in 2023 44% were.

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KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”
78WlP TIL that since 2016, there are more American tourists in Iceland than Icelanders themselves
p8dMG TIL that Cherophobia is fear of being happy. It is the belief that when one becomes happy,something bad will happen.
VBWrk TIL Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one.
wLn5Y TIL that in 1642, Connecticut settler George Spencer was suspected of bestiality when a local pig birthed a piglet that resembled Spencer. He confessed, and they hanged both George and the pig. Another settler was later convicted of the same crime, named Thomas Hogg.