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TIL until 2012 in the UK, it was only legal to get married between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM

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mA7v TIL that for a short period of time, Pepsi had the 6th largest fleet of submarines in the world thanks to a deal they struck to sell their drink in the USSR.
jQMQ TIL Sex alleviates headaches so effectively that some people have started to sex as a treatment for headaches
lN8V TIL that scientists created a completely enclosed, artificial environment called Biosphere 2 and made one mistake that caused all the trees to fall down before maturation: there was no wind so trees failed to develop stress wood, which is necessary for them to stand.
m1vPE TIL that the father of the Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger, Stu, loved picking up young hitchhikers in the ‘60s & ‘70s as it gave him an opportunity to brag about his son. Robby’s dad was also the one who got Ray Manzarek his Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, which was an important part of the Doors’ sound.
aw1Ky TIL: Mexico would not extradite cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the US without assurances he would not be executed. "Drug kingpin activity", along with treason and espionage, is one of a few "crimes against the state" punishable by death under US federal law.