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TIL A man can divorce his wife in Islam simply by saying ‘Talaq’ ('I divorce you’) three times to his wife.

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9Y0JM TIL the moon is shaped like an egg!
70NM TIL The longest prison sentence ever handed out was to a postman who failed to deliver 42,768 letters (9 years for each letter)
R7X8l TIL of the incident when Soviet politician Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe to protest a pro-human rights speech of a Philippine senator at the UN
9Y5ZD TIL that NASA investigates giraffe blood system to improve suit for astronauts.
eg1E TIL that Muhammad Ali was invited to North Korea in 1995 with a collection of other athletes. Though he didn’t speak much during the visit, at one function, as officials claimed they could take out the US or Japan whenever they wanted to, Ali declared loudly “no wonder we hate these motherfuckers.”