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TIL Swiss men are still allowed to present a bayonet – a sword that has generally passed down from generation to generation - as voter identification. This used to be the only form of voting identification for Swiss men up until 1991.

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LQpZZ TIL that the word hysteria originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera. The Egyptians attributed the behavioral disturbances to a wandering uterus – thus the condition later being dubbed hysteria
WA7X TIL that Chess is a sport recognized by the IOC and therefore players are subject to Drug Testing
nOk7 TIL The world’s first motion picture screening was held in December 1895. Within one year the earliest pornographic movie Le Coucher de la Mariée was released
J1P9m TIL that gorillas learn to be mothers when they are babies