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TIL the phrase ‘Gotta catch 'em all!’ was retired in 2003

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kLEB TIL that only two of the 185 countries in the International Labour Organization do not have laws mandating parental leave- the United States, and Papua New Guinea.
x6LWo TIL that the EU maintains an Air Safety list of airlines with "significant safety deficiencies on the part of an airline or its oversight authority" anywhere in the world. These airlines are banned from operating in the EU.
P1KwE TIL that in 1933, the state of Western Australian voted by a clear majority to secede from the Australian Federation, but at the same time, voted out a pro-seccessionist Premier in favour of the anti-seccession candidate. Efforts to implement secession were ultimately complex and unsuccessful.
VMWNZ TIL A Soviet scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov has attempted inseminate three female chimpanzees with human sperm as a part of his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid. The purpose of the project was to "prove" evolution and use it as propaganda against the Russian Orthodox Church.
ZNYR TIL that Allied forces during WWII battled for two straight days on the island of Kiska and suffered over 300 casualties only to find out that the Japanese had abandoned the island two weeks prior to the invasion.