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TIL That more US states permit “cousin marriage” than gay marriage

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OMjL TIL centuries before the actual discovery of penicillin, many ancient cultures were using mouldy food to treat infection without understanding how it worked.
BoNW TIL during a brief power-outage at Nirvana in Munich, Krist Novoselic joked “We’re on the way out. Grunge is dead. Nirvana’s over.“ It would be Nirvana’s last concert before Cobain’s death.
ojjo TIL of Anglish, a form of English where no Latin based words are used, in favor of Germanic forms, such as using “wordstock” in place of “vocabulary.”
RXja TIL only 18 Percent Of Americans Can Drive Manual Transmission Vehicles
4XJV5 TIL Sean Connery agreed to drive himself during the production of Zardoz so that he and the film's writer/director could pocket the £300/day it was costing the film for a car and chauffeur