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TIL that the treatment for being scalped is to have holes drilled through the exposed skull.

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16wgd TIL After Poland was partitioned between the European powers in the late 18th century, the Ottoman and Persian Empires were the only countries in the world to not accept it, with the Ottomans maintaining a Polish ambassador
M7V8V TIL The Sovereign Military Order Of Malta, a vestige of the crusades... is still around and has diplomatic recognition.
v1ZRR TIL Bindi Irwin had her $350,000 Dancing with the Stars prize money withheld because a Los Angeles Superior Court judge was requiring Irwin produce a form signed off by her father Steve. Steve Irwin had been dead for almost a decade.
KOBb9 TIL Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline "Japanese camera"
wolZY TIL that a rancher in Oregon named Bill Brown would often write checks on any paper available. This often included soup can labels and newspaper margins. As he was rich and known for this, the banks would cash the checks without question.