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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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W7GK4 TIL that most of the ski slope maps in North America were painted by one man, James Niehues
51Q TIL that Alabama is just one of many places where you can own a lion, tiger, cobra, or bear, but not a pit bull.
kOQPd TIL Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X, was killed by her own twelve-year-old grandson in 1997. Wanting to return to his mother, who was in treatment as part of a plea agreement for plotting to kill Louis Farrakhan, he set his grandmother's apartment on fire. She died weeks later of her injuries.
6W0W TIL in 1918 after the Treaty of Versailles (end of WW I) the French Commander-in-chief said “This is not a Peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW II happened
v1gbB TIL in 1883, a Mexican astronomer witnessed hundreds of unidentified objects passing in front of the Sun. Today, they are thought to have been fragments of a massive comet that missed the Earth by just a few hundred kilometers. Had it hit, it likely would've caused an extinction-level event.