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TIL that Isreali Labor Party delayed their elections because of a Britney Spears concert as they feared that party members would rather go to a concert than find a polling station and vote

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1aAJ4 TIL "That Charles Darwin upon discovering parasitic wasps actually questioned why a benevolent loving God would create a creatures designed to feed off of a caterpillar's body from the inside."
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