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TIL "Marriage by Proxy" allows couples to be married in some US states with only one of them physically present and the other represented by a stand-in. In Montana a "double proxy" is possible where neither party attends the wedding.

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6EZE8 TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.
vwO4 TIL in 2007 a Doberman Pinscher named Khan saved a baby girl from a deadly King Brown snake attack. At first the dog tried nudging the baby from danger. As the snake was about to strike, Khan grabbed the girl by the diaper, flung her to safety and took a venomous bite to the paw himself.
neb7d TIL In the year 2000, in what is considered the most dominant season of golf in history, Tiger Woods was 160 under for 36 rounds and averaged a staggering 67.33. He had a total of 9 wins, 3 being in a row.
x69Vo TIL: John O'Brien, author of Leaving Las Vegas, wrote the Rugrats episode "Toys In The Attic". He was credited as Carroll Mine, the name of one of the characters from Stripper Lessons (a book of his that was published after his suicide).
NXYKN TIL about Trobriand cricket where the home team always wins the match inspite of the score.