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TIL there are more US nuns over the age of 90 than under 60

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ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”
axRy TIL Chattanooga broadcast legend Luther Masingill is the only announcer to have reported over the air both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attacks of 9/11.
PZpV TIL: There is mental disorder called Maladaptive Daydreaming which causes people to excessively daydream to escape reality as a defense mechanism due to trauma usually from abuse
agbA TIL that Mexico is world’s fattest country with a 32.8 percent adult obesity rate, surpassing United States’ 31.8 obesity rate
AN0xw TIL about the sultanate of women. A period in ottoman history that lasted for a century where the wives and mothers of the sultans held incredible political power that was started by hurrem sultan, the wife of suleiman the magnificent.