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TIL only four countries in the world have no law requiring paid maternity leave: they are Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the United States.

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YpjK7 TIL about Clementine Barnabet, an American teenager who murdered and beheaded 35 people with an ax due to her belief in a voodoo cult called the Church of Sacrifice. Sentenced to life in prison at age 18 in in 1912, she escaped in 1923 and was never heard of again.
DGp TIL that Hitler’s mother was thinking of having an abortion, when she was pregnant with him, but the doctor talked her out of it.
R7Jv7 TIL about Simon the cat, the only cat to win the British Empire's medal for Gallantry and Devotion to Duty
YpQnA TIL that James Barry - a military surgeon, born in 1789, who did first successful caesarean section in Africa, was a female.
DbkD TIL that if the Netherlands stopped all water management 40% of the country would be flooded within weeks.