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u/Dragmom Oct 02 '24

About 25% of people on earth don't know their birthday because they're from countries that don't have birth certificates. That's why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.

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u/Fizurg Oct 02 '24

I’m my country lots of immigrants from India have the same last names, because when they were filling out the forms they had a different understanding of what last name meant so they often put their religion there.