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TIL that in 2017 Switzerland denied a woman citizenship despite her living there for several years because she was “annoying” and didn’t respect Swiss culture

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WgQd TIL Florida is coming up on nine years without a hurricane making direct landfall
6Lll TIL Iran has one of the largest rates of brain drain in the world. It’s estimated that 150,000-180,000 specialists leave the country every year, costing the country at least $50 billion in human capital annually.
p8nWO TIL armadillos carry leprosy and caused a spike of leprosy cases in Florida in 2015
4kROa TIL about the 18th century sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and his Character Heads. He sought to capture the 64 grimaces of human expression in the sculptures and believed the work angered “the Spirit of Proportion”.
57Jn TIL that within a week after the “Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima” picture was taken. Half of the men in the picture were killed in combat.