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TIL at the beginning of 2024, Kuwait began mass citizenship revocations by decree. By December, several high profile figures and their children lost nationality. By March 2025, around 42,000 people had been stripped of citizenship in just six months.

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BGwK TIL Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying $700 million in taxes.
ylw TIL that followers of Native American Church can legally use, transport and possess peyote.
N8MJ TIL that the deepest layer of the ocean, the hadopelagic zone, is named after the realm of Hades, the Greek underworld. This ranges from 6000m (3.7 miles) deep, down to the very lowest reaches. Populations are sparsest here, and are believed to be sustained by marine snow and thermal vents.
LDoV TIL Pedro Alonso López was convicted of Raping and Murdering 110 girls between the ages of 8 - 12 and confessed to killing over 300. He was convicted in 1983 and released in 1998. His whereabouts are unknown.
9g4r TIL Kurt Vonnegut started a graduate degree in anthropology at University of Chicago, but dropped out. Soon after, they mailed him his degree anyway, saying his publication of “Cat’s Cradle” was “halfway decent anthropology” and counted as his dissertation