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TIL water, electricity and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.

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E1r7 TIL in 1801 there were at least 12 Norwegian females called ‘Ermegaard’.
g4GD TIL: The (Abraham) Lincoln family line has been extinct since December 24, 1985, when its last undisputed descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died without any children.
D1PAj TIL the American government manipulated the outcomes of every Italian election for at least 24 years, starting in 1946
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