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TIL that in 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service. The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 stated that every female officer was “deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage”.

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9YA0B TIL There is a theme park in Lithuania which recreates life as a USSR citizen. Visitors have their belongings confiscated, have to wear mouldy overcoats, experience interrogation, and must learn the Soviet anthem.
44N5 TIL in America, fake wrestling is called “pro wrestling” and real wrestling is called “amateur wrestling”
LQo10 TIL of The Lainz Angels of Death. Four women who were nurse’s aides convicted of murdering 49 patients with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into their lungs between 1983 and 1989. They were caught only after bragging about their latest murder in a local tavern. By 2008 all four are free.
epyXL TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
ELRd TIL despite the ongoing Arab Boycott of Israel since 1948, Israel has achieved a higher GDP than all of the participants except for the oil rich Kuwait and Qatar, and the participants stand to lose $30 billion from not trading with Israel by 2020.