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TIL that nowhere in the Quran is there a command that women must be veiled or covered.

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VM0Bm TIL that Scotland has an official contingency plan in case they ever catch the Loch Ness Monster.
6ejl TIL there is a village named Florida, in Orange County, in the state of New York.
V8rZ TIL that HP Lovecraft wrote nearly 100,000 letters in his lifetime, the second most number of letters written by anyone in recorded history; the first was French writer Voltaire. Lovecraft said, “I write [letters] exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation.”
gM4pb TIL human decomposition begins 4 minutes after death, its called autolysis, or self-digestion. Blood circulation and respiration stop. Excess carbon dioxide causes an acidic environment, causing membranes in cells to rupture. Enzymes begin eating the cells from the inside out.
x6NJB TIL Johann Bücheler built Switzerland's first guillotine in 1836 after another carpenter became depressed. He earned 160 francs but became an outcast. To earn some money he build a bonsai guillotine and beheaded celery.