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TIL that in traditional Chinese marriage, husband can unilaterally divorce his wife if she talks too much - 口多言 (Wiki translation is off)

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x6o5o TIL the KGB once smuggled a Sidewinder missile from West Germany by mailing it in pieces to Moscow. An agent earlier broke it through the back window of his Mercedes to drive back from the airbase, marked with a red cloth as required by law. He had brought it down the entire runway in a wheelbarrow.
1aZlD TIL that the Italian city of Monza banned goldfish in bowls because the shape of the bowl gives the fish "a distorted sense of reality"
v1QE7 TIL that anteaters, armadillos and extinct animals such as glyptodonts, giant ground sloths, are pampatheres are all related. They share similar teeth that have no enamel and grow throughout the entire life of both animals and never completely wear down.
15JD TIL Most of the gold that is present today in the Earth’s crust and mantle was delivered to Earth by asteroid impacts
yQx6V TIL after Disneyland's success, NBC invited Walt Disney to build his 2nd theme park near Secaucus, New Jersey not far from NYC. Walt found out the NJ climate would not allow a year-round park, and Roy Disney suggested putting "some method of controlling the weather – a vast dome or some such thing."