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TIL that paternity tests are outlawed in France and Germany “due to fears that more families could be broken by divorce if all fathers were given access to them.”

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DQBLe TIL The Philippines is an archipelago which consists of 7,641 Islands. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.
Y7XeB TIL that the world's oldest operational electric railway is Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, and it dates back to 1883
a9y TIL that Henry Ford was a Nazi anti-Semitic supporter and was the first foreigner to be decorated with Nazi Germany’s Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
D1gQe TIL MI5 estimates there are as many Russian agents in London now as there were at the height of the Cold War.
R54BQ TIL serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, wrote a letter in response to the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks in which he told the shooters to "stop hurting innocent people".