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TIL In parts if the US you not have to be present for the ceremony in order to get married. It is called marriage by proxy.

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g0KW TIL The TLC network (Home of Honey Boo Boo, The Duggars, Little People, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, etc) was originally created by NASA and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to provide “real education through the medium of television”.
9wpxB TIL: Players on losing teams in the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship take home a pouch dirt from the field, as a memento of their fleeting time on the hallowed grounds of Kōshien, the field the tournament has been played on since 1924.
VDoZ TIL that carrots used to be purple until the late 16th century
xxx0 TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup.
9bnQ TIL in the 1990s, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, submitted so many high scores of the classic Gamboy game Tetris to Nintendo Power magazine that they eventually refused to print them. He then began sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow.”