What contributed to the divorce statistics in 2017? Find out...

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Purbalingga, Central Java, saw a spike in divorce applications in 2017. Its court claimed most were from the wives of men recently hooked on pigeon racing.
In the Netherlands smell dispensers’ mimicking the smell of lion poop is used to scare off deer and wild boar despite these animals having never met a lion.
In 1933, the Syrian government banned yo-yos after multiple clerics blamed the toys for prolonging a drought. It rained the next week.
12 May 2021 2AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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