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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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R5wbQ TIL according to US Census data, the state of New York in 2023 had both: the largest population decline in pure numbers (almost 102,000 residents) and the highest rate of population decline (0.5%) among all 50 states.
KvRJ TIL that Sigmund Freud’s nephew believed the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in society. His subsequent work did much to create the consumerist culture we live in today.
Yy5G TIL: The first new antibiotic (Teixobactin) in 30 years has been discovered. This discovery could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered using an electronic chip to grow the microbes from the soil and then isolating their antibiotic chemical compounds.
0wZM1 TIL wealthy Chinese criminals occasionally hire look-a-likes to serve their prison sentence
wLbBP TIL the 'Red Admiral' butterfly has nothing to do with the navy, and is in fact a corruption of its' original name: Red Admirable