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TIL that there are Lego sets made for people aged 16+ with thousands of pieces and detailed design.

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VMZm TIL that ‘Family Protection Bill’ in Iran “gives men the right to take a second wife without the permission of the first, and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years.”
5YRD9 TIL in 2014 the Faroe Islands football team defeated the Greek one 1-0, despite being 169 places below it in the FIFA ranking. The following year they repeated the victory, this time with a 2-1 score.
mxQMR TIL That the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' created controversy when it was first published because many parents and people thought that the wild things looked too scary for children
nKar TIL that the author of FIGHT CLUB came up with the foundation of the novel after being beaten up on a camping trip when he complained to nearby campers about the noise of their radio. When he returned to work, nobody would acknowledge his injuries instead asking things like “How was your weekend?”
ADnb7 TIL that in 1845, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar ordered 50,000 of her subjects to go on a buffalo hunt. The hunt required building roads across jungles and lasted for 4 months, with around 10,000 people died from exhaustion, starvation, and malarial disease - but not a single buffalo was killed