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TIL Kansas court says sperm donor must pay child support
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TIL that as a part of Body Measurement Project Nickolay Lamm created the most typical of American men
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TIL In 1889, thirty years prior to the 19th Amendment, Wyoming became the first US state to grant women the right to vote. Also, in 1924 the state of Wyoming was the first to elect a female US Governor
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TIL Wario is named Wario because it's a portmanteau of the words 'Mario' and the Japanese word 'warui' (悪い), meaning "bad"- not because a W is an upside-down M to signify that he's Mario's evil counterpart.
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TIL "Irish goodbye" refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell. The phrase is attributed to the Potato Famine of 1845-1852, when many Irish fled their homeland for America. The distance and technology meant that they were gone forever.
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TIL that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history.