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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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grEM9 TIL The majority (65%) of the fire departments in the US are made up of volunteers. That means of the total 1,041,200 active firefighters nationwide, 676,900 have selflessly dedicate their time and service to their communities.
EWEo TIL in 1955 the US designed a nuclear powered cruise missle. The SLAM’s unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath its flight path and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination.
4XLNg TIL that Bayer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical company, was involved in human trafficking during WWII, where they bought groups of women from Auschwitz to conduct secrets experiments on them.
e5AE TIL the presence of eyebrows is more important for facial recognition than the presence of eyes.
X0mZ6 TIL about Comstock laws. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[2] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information.