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TIL that in Ethiopia ‘marriage by abduction,’ which is often followed by rape and forced pregnancy accounts for 69% of all the nation’s marriages.

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KGlR TIL over 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals. Antibiotics help them gain weight and stay healthy in overcrowded conditions, but also encourage antibiotic resistant bacteria that spread to workers and meat consumers. Pfizer has spent $900,000 fighting a bill to stop the practice.
X0oZD TIL David Spade had over thirty private voicemails of Chris Farley and Norm MacDonald doing bits and leaving messages but they were accidentally deleted forever when his voicemail machine was unplugged
X07Q6 TIL Elephants can’t jump. Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don't have the "spring" required to push off the ground.
BgEGx TIL that the city of Wausau, Wisconsin banned the throwing of snowballs from 1884 up to 2020.
e0MPJ TIL there is a town in Canada named Asbestos