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TIL John Cleese’s ex-wife is now worth more than him due to their divorce settlement

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GY5mN TIL the closest living relatives of hippos are cetaceans, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
KOBQw TIL one of the longest running civil wars in the world is the Karen Conflict, which has been going on since 1949 between the Burmese/Myanmar government and the Karen minority nationalists in Karen State, Myanmar.
j9NQ TIL that in China and many other east asian countries,when you are born, you are considered one year old and everyone’s age increases one year on New Year’s. Age is incremented on the beginning of a solar term instead of a birth date.
m1p0p TIL that there is a restaurant in Japan where you catch your own fish for them to cook.
dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.