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TIL Bride Price (dowry) was paid if a man slept with a virgin woman and for her to be his bride, is still practiced today in Asia, Europe and some parts of Africa.

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g1YW TIL that American “cheese” cannot legally be sold as cheese in America. Hence the term “singles.”
Yo1v TIL that Cleopatra’s family tree was full of inbreeding, including three marriages between an uncle & niece and three between siblings. As a result, some of her ancestors were the same person. For instance, her mother was her father’s niece and thus not only her mother but also her first cousin.
loan5 TIL about the ghost ship Deering. The ship was abandoned by the crew, who took personal belongings, navigational equipment, papers and the ship's anchor. Despite an FBI investigation, no trace of the crew or the ship's logs were ever found. Speculation ranges from a mutiny to Bolshevik pirates.
7RxO TIL that we haven’t had a bearded president in the United States since 1893.
VENB TIL the guy who played ‘Scruffy’ in Futurama also voiced Michael Bolton in Office Space.