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TIL Hawaii is the only state in the US to have a single school district and no local school boards.

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QNEm9 TIL in Egypt, around 17000 divorce cases in 2018 cited "Candy Crush" as the cause of divorce.
ZZXQ TIL Daniel Radcliffe deliberately wore the same outfit for 6 months to piss off the paprazzi. Making it look like “the same old shot”
4M8a TIL in 1916, there was a Constitutional amendment proposed that would have put declarations of war to a vote, and those voting for war would be forced to volunteer for military service.
oNEr TIL traditional Samoans valued a bride’s virginity so much, the chief would break her hymen in public so the entire tribe could see his bloody fingers.
Z8Woo TIL the Dept. of Education has their own SWAT team. In 2011 they suspected a woman of a white collar crime so they raided her house at dawn. Except it wasn’t her home anymore so they held her ex husband and his 3 children.