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TIL the most expensive divorce ever cost the husband 2.5 billion dollars

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GAkdJ TIL that in 1795, the British Government began requiring hair powder users to pay a 1 Guinea annual fee (roughly £100 pounds today) or face substantial fines. In its first year, the tax raised £200,000. By the time it was repealed in 1869, it yielded an annual revenue of £1,000.
ep0Lb TIL about an expiriment called "the wave" conducted at a highschool in california, that explained why the germans around the Nazis didnt do anything about them murdering and persecuting their neighbors and family during world war 2.
ne4Pr TIL that a Lord of the Rings-type world populated by multiple hominid populations once existed.
M7bQV TIL that in 2023 a final rule was finally published by the Fish and Wildlife Service declaring the iconic Ivory Billed Woodpecker was extinct. The rule included 21 species, including 10 birds, 8 mussels, 2 fish, and a flying fox. The rule removes protection under the Endangered Species Act.
pYx9A TIL The stability–instability paradox states that when two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.