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TIL execution by mortar shell is a thing in North Korea

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77O7 TIL In 2008, a group of Australian teenagers beat up the world’s oldest flamingo
x6M07 TIL that the date of Easter used to be so complicated to calculate that church authorities would come up with algorithms to determine it years in advance. Disagreements over the proper algorithm led to Eastern Orthodox churches celebrating Easter on a different date than Western churches.
D17Wp TIL the process of dry cleaning was invented in 1821 by an African American business owner named Thomas Jennings. He was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent. He had to use the proceeds from his invention to buy his wife and children out of slavery.
P1Pgn TIL: Ahmed Gabr, an Egyptian retired special forces army officer holds two Guiness World records for The deepest sea water dive and the deepest scuba dive (male) at 332.36m or 1090.4ft in the Red Sea in 2014.
RVJ1 TIL many brands of lipstick still contain large traces of lead