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16x74 TIL A traditional marriage custom in Congo forbids the bride and the groom from smiling during their entire wedding day.
b9ZmE TIL Blues Brothers Movie set a world record (at the time) for destroying 103 cars in a film.
nM7B TIL that one of the dangers of working in a tryworks (a furnace in the whaling industry) is that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man
6EWQ8 TIL about Gilberto Baschiera, an Italian banker heralded a as modern-day Robin Hood. Over a period of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros from wealthy clients to poorer clients so they could qualify for loans. He did not profit from the scheme and avoided jail in 2018 after a plea bargain.
yQL0l TIL there is a fake village in the Netherlands, complete with a fake supermarket, restaurant, and theatre amongst other things, which is actually a care home for dementia sufferers