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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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KrBE TIL that the voice of Snow White, Adriana Caselotti, in the original 1937 film was only paid $20 a day, totalling $970; while the dwarves were each paid $150 a day.
KYdJG TIL Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during the pandemic
VBjDp TIL the first white settlement of Saskatoon, Canada was a temperance colony where they believed banning alcohol would lead to a utopia.
QNkdd TIL René Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine, is the great-great-great-grand nephew of Napoleon
6EEm TIL the oldest obsidian bracelet, found in Turkey, is dated to c. 7500 BCE. The symmetry of the central annular ridge is extremely precise, to the nearest degree and nearest hundred micrometers, forcing researchers to rethink the manufacturing skills of “hunter/gatherers”.