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TIL Mussolini gave women the right to vote for the first time in Italy in 1925, however he abolished free elections soon after, making the newly acquired right completely meaningless

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ER4p TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”
LQMWp TIL lemurs get high on millipedes
xbv0 TIL Hell’s Angels prevented the WBC from picketing the funerals of Sandy Hook victims.
YpgoW TIL Mark Hamill voiced his criticism on director/writer Rian Johnson’s treatment of Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, saying, “I fundamentally disagree with virtually everything you’ve decided about my character”. He later apologized for “voicing my doubts & insecurities in public”.
P1g8O TIL that contrary to popular belief, the CIA did not stage a coup against Mossadegh, the not so democratically elected PM of Iran. Rather, the power to oust the PM was already given to the Shah and had been exercised against Mossadegh twice before.