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TIL that in Australia, the median maternal age at childbirth reached a 90-year low of 25.4 years in 1971, steadily rising ever since - by 2022, the parental age gap narrowed to its smallest range, dropping below an average 2-year difference, for the first time in half a century.

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XENJ8 TIL that the Icelandic government banned the stationing of black American soldiers in Iceland during the Cold War so as to "protect Icelandic women and preserve a homogenous national body". After pressure from the US military, the ban was eventually lifted in the late 1960s.
4BKa TIL a man’s enormous 12-pound facial tumour could have been treated when he was a teenager, but his mother wouldn’t let him get surgery because she was a Jehovah’s Witness.
mxWWv TIL that Cats the musical uses carefully crafted yak hair wigs for costumes. In 2016, they cost $2300 each and it took 40 hours or more to make a single wig. The wigs can’t be re-used. Over its 18-year run, the first Broadway production used 3247 pounds of yak hair.
4ROw TIL in 1680, the Pueblo Indians of N.M., unified by leader Popé, drove off their Spanish oppressors for 12 years. Because of this, they were able to save their culture and beliefs, which still exist today. The Pueblo Revolt is considered the most successful Indian rebellion in American history.
e0AV4 TIL Pres. Ronald Reagan was a huge fan of Jelly Beans and once wrote to the head of Jelly Belly, saying "It's gotten to the point...where we can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around a jar of jelly beans"