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TIL Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, prime minister of Iceland, is the country’s first female prime minister and was the world’s first openly gay head of government

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PYMKn TIL that every Canadian citizen in Canada can vote, including convicts and persons diagnosed with mental illness, with one exception - the Chief Electoral Officer.
4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue
KYj09 TIL that hippopotamuses are an invasive species in Colombia. Pablo Escobar brought four to his private zoo in the 70s, and after his death they escaped. Their population grew to around 100, earning them the nickname “cocaine hippos”
wolnP TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. They would put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes.
KXKa TIL that a study conducted by a Swiss university showed that stockbrokers are more reckless and manipulative than diagnosed psychopaths.