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TIL dancing is prohibited and punishable by law in Germany during religious holidays, like Easter

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9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
69lGW TIL women attempt suicide more than men, but men are just more successful at it
pbRG TIL Texas banned last meal after inmate ordered two chicken-fried steaks, a triple-bacon cheeseburger, cheese omelette, three fajitas, pizza, barbecued meat with white bread, fried okra with ketchup, ice cream, peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts, three root beers and didn’t eat any of it.
Bgd9K TIL In the last 10 years, despite hundreds of millions of passengers each year, only two people have died from accidents in commercial U.S. flights.
91VB TIL that there is an American-born beer style called “Cream Ale” that was extremely popular before Prohibition, but never regained that same popularity after Prohibition ended.