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TIL only 2% of members of the Church of Sweden regularly attend Sunday service

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xVxw5 TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town
p8n98 TIL Paro Airport in Bhutan is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified enough to land there. (Pilots maneuver between mountains, fly within feet of houses, and land on a narrow, 6,500-foot runway.)
Oo9j1 TIL the cloth of gold cone (Conus textile) is a venomous species of sea snail capable of severely stinging humans, and several deaths have been attributed to this marine gastropod. The snail's proboscis holds the harpoon-like, radular tooth which is responsible for injecting conotoxin into its prey.
5w89 TIL: In 2006 Ireland blocked the US from transporting arms to Israel through Shannon Airport, “segments of the Irish public see the airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Middle East.”
0wmYN TIL "Typhoid Mary" vigorously protested her quarantine. When she was first captured in 1907, she fled over back fences and barricaded herself with barrels. Her second capture came after she hid in a friend’s home on Corona Avenue and was finally captured by means of a ladder to the second story.