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TIL The Netherlands were the very first country to legalize same-sex marriage, and furthermore, homosexual acts were legal since 1811

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5VPeD TIL a 2020 analysis found that approximately 1.8% of physicians were responsible for half of the roughly $83.3 billion paid out in malpractice lawsuits that were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank over a 25 year period.
VB1KG TIL Yogi Berra found out what a bidet was in 1954 when visiting the italian hometown of his parents and had a handfull of them sent to his american home.
NYbQ TIL that it’s impossible to obtain an original theatrical version of Star Wars. Every obtainable release has been altered in some way. Even some of the later theatrical releases in 1977 had changes made to them.
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oBlWE TIL of a Firenado, a rare natural phenomena that is essentially a vortex of fire caused by extreme heat that sounds like a jet engine.