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TIL 60% of marriages in Pakistan are between 1st or 2nd cousins

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grVP7 TIL that California’s 1967 Magic Mountain Music Festival was favourably reviewed for safety in press accounts, as fight or disturbances were not an issue, and at the end of the day, trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided. The immense crowd left Mount Tamalpais as they had found it.
9Y6ar TIL Broadway vs Off-Broadway is based on the number of seats, with Broadway having over 500, Off-Broadway between 100-499, and Off-Off-Broadway having less than 99
4xjJ TIL Roger Babson, the first economic forecaster to predict the 1929 crash and Great Depression, thought of gravity as his sworn enemy and tried to get rid of it.
l7J11 TIL that local restaurant owner Jackie Bevins shot her mobster husband while he was on the can and was found not guilty of murder due to Battered Woman Syndrome
7r64p TIL from 1968 to 1973, the British evicted the entire population of the Chagos islands to allow the United States to build a military base on Diego Garcia