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TIL Ace of Base got their big break when a record producer got their demo stuck in his tape player forcing him to listen repeatedly to what would become “All That She Wants”

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XNAr TIL the honeymoon is a relic of marriage by capture, based on the practice of the husband going into hiding with his wife to avoid reprisals from her relatives, with the intention that the woman would be pregnant by the end of the month.
x68L1 TIL Steve Martin dated Deana Martin after winning an episode of "The Dating Game" in 1968. They are not related.
VBKyQ Today I learned about the battle of Wabash, aka the battle of a thousand slain, considered one of the worst defeats in US military history in which 1400 Army troops faced 1100 Native Americans resulting in 21 Native American deaths and almost 700 American deaths
l774G TIL Sake is more like beer than wine. Beer = water, yeast, hops, malted grain. Sake = water, yeast, rice fermented by Koji fungus (same stuff that turns soybeans into miso)
P7QG TIL The courts in New Zealand allowed a child to be named ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’