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TIL: Having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person’s happiness. On average, the effect of a new baby on a person’s life in the first year is worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.

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d8yWB TIL that in 1896, Irish-American inventor Patrick Cunningham sabotaged a town rally for presidential candidate William McKinley by firing his rocket-powered "flying devil" torpedo down the main street.
nWywY TIL the emergency number in Mozambique is 119, or in other words: 911 backwards.
R7AJ1 TIL of Porajmos, Nazi Germany’s and its WWII allies’ effort to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against Europe’s Romani people. Later research cited by Ian Hancock estimated the death toll to be at about 1.5 million out of an estimated 2 million Roma.
X0kWr TIL the Monastic community of Mount Athos, despite being part of the EU like the rest of Greece hold a special jurisdiction that empowers them to restrict the free movement of people and goods. In particular, only males are allowed to enter, while women and most female animals are banned.
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.