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TIL "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" was first published 200 years ago (December 23, 1823) in a Troy, New York newspaper

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GAM1N TIL that a BBC report found that 80% of personal loans taken out by UAE men were used for wedding expenses; as a result, many Emirati men opted to marry "less demanding" foreign women. In response, the government created a fund giving grooms money if the bride was Emirati.
JYDn1 TIL if you drilled a tunnel through the center of the Earth and decided to jump in it, you would emerge on the other side in about 42 minutes.
KO9la TIL of Katherine Knight who, in 2001, became the first Australian woman ever to be given a no-parole life sentence after cooking her husband to feed to his children.
oReMo TIL: Aimo Koivunen was the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on meth during combat. During WW2, feeling tied he took his squad's entire supply of Army issued Pervitin (meth). He then entered a state of delirium, hit a land mine, and subsisted on pine buds and one bird for a week.
nQZB TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975