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TIL Happy Hour is illegal in Ireland since 2003
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TIL Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.
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TIL that actress Tallulah Bankhead nearly died following a five-hour emergency hysterectomy due to venereal disease. Only 70 lbs (32kg) when she left the hospital, she stoically said to her doctor, "Don't think this has taught me a lesson!"
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TIL that the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century was Novarupta, in Alaska in 1912. The eruption lasted for 60 hours and created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Due to its remoteness, the eruption did not kill anyone.
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TIL Thomas Paine was condemned to be guillotined in the French Revolution. He survived because the prison officers marked the wrong side of his cell door by mistake, and didn’t notice when it was closed
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TIL that when Freydís Eiríksdóttir, a 10th century Icelandic viking who was 8 months pregnant, was surrounded by hostile natives during a battle in America, she pulled a epic "Bring it on" move by picking up a dead man's sword and beat her naked breast with it, causing the natives to panic and flee.