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TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.

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