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TIL divorce only became legal in Ireland in 1997.
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TIL there's a scrotum on the coat of arms above Parliament House, Australia.
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TIL that arctic shrews are so territorial that whenever two are placed together in a cage, one will mysteriously die within a few days
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TIL similar to the “Amber Alert” program, most states also have a missing persons recovery program called “Silver Alert”, which is designed to help find missing senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities.
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TIL The reason hurricanes and cyclones have human names is that the original meteorologist to name them, Clement Wragge, began naming them after politicians he didn’t like. This let him say they were ‘causing great distress’ or 'wandering aimlessly’.
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TIL so many significant events in German history have happened on November 9 that historians have called the date 'The Day of Fate'. Events which have occurred on this date include Kristallnacht & the fall of the Berlin Wall.