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TIL People in least religious countries are happier

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5YBbn TIL the Beastie Boys were immensely sexist and homophobic in their early career. However, upon hearing criticism of this, they apologized for it multiple times(one of them through a song) since and, while not listed in article, have been activists for social causes and battling bigotry.
697aJ TIL Lincoln made no mention of Pilgrims, Plymouth or Natives when he codified Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.
Zpb7Q TIL that when actor Bruce Dern was born in 1936, his grandfather George Dern was the sitting U.S. Secretary of War. George had also been the Governor of Utah before Bruce was born.
Ypb1A TIL that the German submarine U-1206 flooded as a result of improper toilet operation.