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TIL expensive weddings usually end in divorce.

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9dxX TIL the first known robot was created around 400-350 BC and was a steam powered “pigeon” that was able to fly about 200 meters before it ran out of steam
pYJZO TIL about 'Row Zero', a theoretical plane above Hydrogen on the Periodic Table (not next to it!)
r9N1 TIL: first case of child abuse was brought to New York court system, by among others, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. There were no laws against abuse of children. so one of the arguments was that a child is technically an animal
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
XEEbR Short answer: Sort of. Call it a noseworm.