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TIL The Simpsons is credited with the popularization of the word “Meh”

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E1QX TIL that on August 12, 1950, the Catholic Church accepted that the theory of evolution was a valid scientific inquiry.
NXOV6 TIL the oldest continuous parliament is the Tynwald of the Isle of Man, which is over 1000 years old
gr70y TIL in 1719, prisoners in Paris were granted freedom on the condition that they marry a prostitute and relocate to Louisiana.
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