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TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age for marriage, and it is perfectly legal to marry even an hour-old child

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l7BvV TIL about the Panic of 1837, a major financial depression in the U.S. that lasted until the mid-1840s. Nearly half of all banks failed, businesses closed, prices declined, and there was mass unemployment. The economy recovered by 1850 due to the California Gold Rush.
E1eLV TIL of minghun, or Chinese ghost marriage, in which one or more parties is deceased. The practice led to a black market for corpses of young women in 2017–19.
e05LL TIL 85% of our old clothes end up in a landfill, equating to about 25 billion tons of textile waste annually in North America that contaminate the water and soil because most of the clothing fibers cannot biodegrade.
VBL0m TIL that after data reviews, "no evidence [was found] that placebo interventions in general have large clinical effects"
1amOd TIL: Modern sewage systems in the USA are designed to accommodate a peak demand or 'Super Flush' at halftime of the Super Bowl, the one time of the year that everyone uses the toilet at the same time.