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TIL that in Pakistan over 60% of the marriages are between cousins.

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8QZa TIL that because of the number of low-hanging power lines in San Francisco, the city’s fire department still uses handmade wooden ladders, made by on-staff master ladder makers.
d8dkj TIL that Americans spend more time watching other people on television cook than they do cooking themselves.
rRWWo TIL organizers of the Woodstock festival claimed to the authorities in Bethel, NY, that less than 50,000 people would turn up, despite selling 186,000 tickets in advance. The festival ultimately drew an audience of over 400,000, and both Bethel and NY State banned such events in its wake.
XAl8 TIL that a man graduated from Columbia after performing his janitorial duties at the school full-time for 12 years.
kOEBg TIL Certain Ant Species Have Evolved Huge, Shield-like Heads, Which They Use to Plug the Entrances to Their Nests From Predators