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TIL that Niger has highest total fertility rate and its more than 3 times the replacement rate

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DQO0D TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.
Mem5a TIL that in the Pagan’s motorcycle club, women are not allowed to walk alone, are referred to as either “old lady” or “the property of”. Also, women that are “shared” are referred to as “pets” and the men aren’t allowed to marry them.
8amnK TIL in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler praises America as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by “excluding certain races from naturalization.”
E1lgx TIL about Hideki Okamoto who became Karate teacher for Syrian government after using Karate to resist capture by armed security for nearly an hour while inebriated
xVnMB TIL in 2018, NYC had a period where (for the first time ever) it had a lower murder rate than London, causing many people to believe London became more dangerous. In truth, it was likely heavy snow that caused the lower rate in NYC. By the end of the year, NYC had double the murder rate.