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TIL anyone with a grandparent born in Ireland is entitled to claim Irish citizenship, and the numbers entitled to that status in Britain may exceed the entire population of Ireland.

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kJ7m7 TIL about the first recorded divorce in US history, in which the husband later admitted to having two wives and refused to return to his first wife with whom he had left his two children.
0dJNy TIL a Boeing 727 disappeared 290km off the coast of Canada in 1990 and no trace has ever been found
MoGb TIL The town of Lauderhill, Florida was supposed to present actor James Earl Jones with a plaque for their annual Martin Luther King celebration. The company in charge of making it printed the name “James Earl Ray” on it. James Earl Ray was the man who killed Martin Luther King.
vay4 TIL Watermelons originated in a desert.
5Yyxn Today I learned that Taiwan has 5 branches of government. Aside from Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches there's the Examination Yuan which validates qualifications of civil servants and the Control Yuan which is an investigative branch that audits, evaluates and prosecutes govt officials.