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TIL the best man’s original purpose was to serve as an accomplice in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from disapproving parents.

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KYMPR TIL hair stands on end when the chance of lightning will strike nearby.
B8xy TIL after learning that atoms are mostly empty space, physicist Ernest Rutherford was anxious about getting out of bed because he was scared that he might fall through the floor.
OWXL TIL “Meals on Wheels People,” a Portland, Ore.-based service and one of the largest in the country, says it costs $2,500 annually to provide daily meals to a homebound senior, while cost of institutional care for a year in Oregon is around $60,000. Cost for one day in the hospital is around $2,271.
Qd1E TIL There is an entire book dedicated to the gifts crows have given people who care for them.
6Ewy8 TIL Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus, contains parts of the last primeval forest fragment of the European woodlands that once stretched across the European Plain. Since 2015 there has been a visa-free regime within the forest for hikers and cyclists between Poland and Belarus