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TIL the Irish Government is expected to give €19 million to the Greyhound racing industry in 2024.

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OGelR TIL of Edward Barton-Wright, one of the first European practitioners of Japanese martial arts. He worked as an Antimony smelter in Japan, where he learned 2 styles of jujitsu. Upon returning to England he opened a school that taught a style named Bartitsu which combined jujitsu, boxing and savate.
GY0Zj TIL: In 1901, the assassin of President William McKinley was tried, convicted AND executed only 45 days after McKinley’s death
LQpGr TIL that in 1964, Illinois reelected all 177 members of the Illinois House of Representatives. This resulted in a ballot with 236 names and over 500 million individual candidate votes
4Xww TIL that the United States’ only native parrot species, the Carolina Parakeet, went extinct in 1918 because they were deemed as pests by farmers and as lovely decorations for ladies’ hats.
loR6r TIL of the Republic of Kalmykia, a region of western Russia where the predominant religion is Buddhism