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TIL Parents of Down syndrome children are less likely to divorce.

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5Y4xr TIL that Van Halen refused to make videos for their album 5150, so Warner Bros quickly cobbled together a video for the song "Dreams" by using stock footage of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. The cheap video became a surprise hit on MTV and the Navy began to use it as part of their recruiting efforts.
oRDBL TIL the US occupied Iceland during WWII, after the British invaded (in order to prevent the Germans from doing the same)
PnAV TIL that mothers in Canada can get up to a year of maternity leave, whereas the max amount in the U.S. is only 12 weeks.
WaKo TIL that Martha Stewart is banned from entering the UK.
Wk5jo TIL ex-England football star Paul Gascoigne tried to help save the fugitive murderer Raoul Moat by seeking him out in his dressing gown, with a fishing rod and a cooked chicken.