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TIL Lego's brick making is so accurate only 18 in every million bricks made are defective, which are then recycled.

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b61Z9 TIL of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which permitted widowed men to marry their dead wife's sister, which had previously not been legal. Under the act, a man marrying his divorced but living ex-wife's sister was still forbidden.
RxL6 TIL in 1600 one of the first Englishmen to land in Japan ended up a samurai and adviser to the Shogun
morM TIL during the third reich, a company made a board game version of the holocaust called ‘Juden Raus’
VBYaG TIL that Black Genesis, the second book in L. Ron Hubbard's series Mission Earth, was one of five nominees for the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It came in 6th place, behind all four other nominees as well as "No Award."
yQKPl TIL When Male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen's nuptial flight, she'll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of their dead, penisless corpses in her wake.