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TIL that since 2015, same-sex marriage was completely legalised on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn (which is inhabited by a small settlement of 50 people all descended from the 1790 Bounty mutiny)… however, there are no known homosexuals or homosexual couples residing on the island.

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