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TIL selling of contraception were banned in Ireland until 1980. Irish women circumvented the ban by complaining of heavy or irregular periods to doctor, and prescribed pill under a medical pretext.

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5wMP TIL that sand tiger shark fetuses kill and eat each other in the womb. Only the strongest survives to be born ‘a metre long and already an experienced killer’
l7VoN TIL: During the Christmas/NYE holiday season of 2022, a winter storm caused Southwest Airlines' (ancient) crew scheduling software to break down, stranding crew members and cancelling 50% of flights between 21-30 December. Losses were reportedly between $1.1 billion to over $1.2 billion.
6M0Z TIL “not clapping hard enough” was one of the reasons Jang Sung-taek, former North Korean official, was executed for
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jN9kM TIL that the .io domain belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territories that the British took over after a shady Cold War deal. They make millions of profits on the domain without sharing any of it with the Chagossian people, the inhabitants of the territories.