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TIL: As of February 2023, Haiti has no remaining elected government officials and has been described as a failed state.

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wLGPY TIL due to a folk belief that people born in certain years have bad personalities, the birth rate in Japan dropped by 30% from 1965 to 1966, and recovered completely in 1967.
4G6o TIL that in 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within 2 square miles of each other in Vienna
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