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TIL Florida is coming up on nine years without a hurricane making direct landfall

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KOm7Q TIL that the Taiwanese Parliament is notorious for having brawls during Legislative Sessions. I also just learned that this is called Legislative Violence and is not at all too uncommon when the Legislature are dealing with divisive issues and tight votes.
QVye TIL Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only “doubly landlocked” countries in the world
Pjbn TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.
wop8W TIL that if you have bell clapper deformity, your testicles hang in your scrotum and swing freely, like a clapper in a bell. This free-swinging can lead to testicular torsion, a painful condition in which your testicle twists and loses its blood supply, requiring emergency care.
woV1o TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch