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TIL a Texas man was once sentenced to sleep outside in a doghouse for 30 nights, as a punishment for child abuse

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d8LOd TIL The South's first police force was created for the preservation of slavery " Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts,".
OGE4g TIL that fighting off bad spirits is serious business in Romania, and they do it in the coolest way possible—with a bear dance! You guys... every December, people in Comănești wear intricate bear costumes and perform traditional dances to banish evil spirits and welcome in the new year!
OEOa TIL After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011,more than 200 Japanese pensioners, all over 60, volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis. The organizer said “Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live.”
g9eL TIL that in 1998 a US military jet cut the cables of a cable car in Italy killing 20 people. No one was convicted. [Possibly NSFW]
g59W TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, taught French at Eton to an Eric Blair, who would later go on to use the pen name George Orwell.