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TIL: the historical king of the republic of Venice was the "Doge"

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nelZG TIL the phrase "That's what she said" originates from an old british saying, "Said the actress to the bishop" that dates back to the early 1900's.
6xgQ TIL a team sets up a polling booth in an isolated forest in India each election so that a lone priest who lives there can vote, because the Election Commission mandates that no voter should “ordinarily travel more than 2km to reach the booth.”
XElrr TIL, in 1970s, South Korea introduced the Minor Offenses Act that mandated limits on men's hair length and women's miniskirt length. Men with long hair were taken to a police station to have their hair cut against their will. Arrested women were forced to wear a 'modest' costume in police station.
d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
JEQV TIL of Ali Maow Maalin. In 1978, he became the last person on earth to contract naturally occurring Smallpox. He spent his life working to eradicate Polio, and unfortunately died from Malaria in 2013.