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TIL Genghis Kahn once executed someone by pouring molten silver into their head

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8eBrK TIL about Gage Skidmore a photographer who goes to San Doego comic con and takes photos of celebrities. To date 93,458 celebrity profiles use his photos.
YpLrd TIL Since suicide is an unforgivable sin for christians many people, especialy women in 18th century resorted to suicide by proxy. They would usualy murder a child, a crime punishable by death and ask for forgiveness right before the execution
OokPg TIL the practice of family or ethnic roasting in Western and Central Africa is actually an UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.
E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.