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TIL that a few hundred years back, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands if he didn’t provide them with enough coffee.

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j05n TIL In 1976, Elton John bought a controlling interest in Watford FC, his favorite boyhood football club, investing his own money and acting as chairman for many years leading to Watford’s promotion to the top division in English football
Qw09 TIL that in England during the First World War German Shepherd dogs were renamed ‘Alsatians’ owing to anti-German sentiment. It’s only relatively recently that the correct term 'German Shepherd’ has come back into common usage.
woNoY TIL about ''execution of nine relations'' from china in which a criminal's spouse, kids, grandkids, parents, grandparents ,cousins, aunts and uncles, inlaws would all be killed. Usually only used in cases of treason though sometimes this was used for crimes as mundane as libel.
eXOk TIL that the Nuremberg Principals state that simply following the orders of your government does not excuse you from the consequences of violating international law
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