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1aAp7 TIL agnosticism is the view that the existence of God is unknown or unknowable. A believer in God can be agnostic, and so can an atheist.
d85DE TIL of HMS Electra, a British WW2 destroyer that saved the three survivors of HMS Hood, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at the Battle of Kuantan, and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet, buying time for the crippled cruiser HMS Exeter to escape.
yQKnX TIL Liechtenstein was the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote. In a referendum on the issue on 1 July 1984, 51.3% of voters (all men of course) supported the move. The supporters of female suffrage won by 119 votes
xmMk TIL TV show “MAS*H” was never intended to have a laugh track. CBS forced the show’s creators to compromise that laughter was to be played over all scenes except surgery scenes to lighten the show’s mood. The show was aired in the UK without a laugh track, as the creators intended
ep4aJ TIL spectators can be penalty carded in the sport of fencing