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TIL In Japan, it's required by law that married couples must share the same surname.

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vPK87 TIL that the use of the phrase "High five" as a noun has only been a thing since 1980 and as a verb since 1981

yQ9pl TIL: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a late 19th century English composer and conductor was the son of a man who descended from African-American slaves who were freed by the British and evacuated from the colonies at the end of the American Revolutionary War

e0ry6 TIL that Julius Caesar outlawed private vehicle use during the first 10 hours of daytime to combat traffic.

loZ1G TIL In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through President's Park, separating what would become Lafayette Square from the White House grounds. Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers

8eA9K TIL Ethiopia acquired 3 Electric Chairs for capital punishment, but did not have enough reliable electricity to use them in practice. 2 of the chairs were converted to become garden furniture, the remaining was used by their Emperor as a throne.