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TIL King Sisowath of Cambodia cooperated with the French Government and was rewarded a new palace, a steam-powered yacht and a 250 lb per year supply or high grade opium

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aX5N TIL that many of the “witches” in the infamous Salem witch trials are now believed to have had Huntington’s disease and their symptoms were mistaken for possession by the devil.
10NX TIL that a trained crow named Jimmy the Raven appeared in over 1,000 feature films between 1934 and 1954.
YppA TIL A Japanese girl was crushed to death by a gate that was slammed shut because she was tardy to class.
ayXb TIL: That SHARKS are OLDER than TREES.
ro9e TIL There was once a hybrid people who greatly resembled the culture and people of Skellige from the Witcher 3. They were called the Norse-Gaels and they were “Celtic Vikings” from Gaelic Ireland and Scotland who exhibited Norse-Gaelic cultural Syncretism