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TIL that unlike motherhood, fatherhood is not mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human rights.

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wo0n1 TIL of Decorah Posten, an Iowa-based Norwegian-language newspaper that was widely read by Scandinavian immigrants to the United States from 1874 to 1972. Its founder, Brynild Anundsen, represented the state of Iowa at the coronation of Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud in 1906.
j6erp TIL in 2005 pro golfer John Daly sued a Florida newspaper for saying he failed “the scoundrel sniff test”. The case was thrown out because Daly couldn’t disprove any of the statements made in the article.
N7QON TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built
7N4x TIL that in order to prevent everything from being named after mathematician Leonhard Euler, discoveries are sometimes named after the first person AFTER Euler to have discovered them.
MdK7 TIL that Samsung is so big that they account for 15% of South Korea’s entire economy