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TIL that Phillipines is the only country in the world where getting a divorce is illegal

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9jAX TIL that while projections show Islam and Christianity having population booms into 2050, atheism is expected to dwindle as time goes on. The main reason is atheists have extremely low fertility rates in comparison to Christians and Muslims.
VMp4B TIL about R. Budd Dwyer, and Pennsylvania politician who killed himself on live tv
loPO5 TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow's home.
Ea97 TIL that the largest natural bridge on Earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google Earth.
e0xjg TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired after he was taught by the Inuit, indigenous people of Canada, how to ice fish under very thick ice. In -40 °C weather, he discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and when thawed, tasted fresh