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TIL that Japanese law prohibits women, but not men, from remarrying for six months after a divorce.

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4XbWo TIL Televangelist Pat Robertson, net worth $100M, predicted in 1976 that the world would end in November of 1982. After that didn't happen, he tried again a decade later—in his 1990 book The New Millennium, he said the world would be destroyed on April 29, 2007. The world did not end on that date.
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