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TIL Divorce in Ireland was only legalised in 1995 after a referendum. The margin of victory was 0.56%

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WkG78 TIL there is no English word for a group of Snow Leopards, because it is so rare to see more than one at once.
0ddeA TIL during the Pascal-B subterranean nuclear test in 1957, a 2000lbs steel plate cap was thrown into the atmosphere at 150,000 miles per hour
9wb9r TIL Loving County, Texas, is named after rancher Oliver Loving. While dying in New Mexico in 1867 from gangrene caused by Comanche arrows, Loving convinced his friend to temporarily bury his body for six months, then exhume it and haul it by wagon 500 miles back to Texas for a proper burial.
ADO7l TIL all men have a scar of what was supposed to be the vagina. During embryotic development, everyone has a genital opening. In females, it develops into the labia and vagina. When male hormones enter, it is fused together, leaving a scar that runs from the anus, over the scrotum and up the penis.
Opye TIL: Massachusetts General was the first hospital in the world to use anesthetics. “Ether Day,” the anniversary of that event is still celebrated 170 plus years later by its doctors and staff annually on October 16th.