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TIL that the Vatican is the only country in the world where women can’t vote

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Ne5P TIL that Stalin screened “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. It backfired. Russian audiences marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars. (6th paragraph)
909m TIL the French version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm changes the name of the pig Napoleon to Caesar. It is illegal to name a pig Napoleon in France.
40Zg TIL that due to a now banned fertility treatment, there are 30-50 people in the world that each have three biological parents.
YoAr TIL that “multitasking” as we know it is a myth. Rather, people who are good at “multitasking” are actually good at micro-prioritizing many different tasks.
BdEx TIL cake mix used to contain powdered egg, and only needed water; Betty Crocker made the decision to take it out and sales skyrocketed. Due to housewives feeling that the simple step of adding a real egg somehow made the cake more homemade/authentic, and gave them a sense of contribution.