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TIL Crucifixion is still legal in Sudan

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eped4 TIL that during the peak years of her career, Marilyn Monroe was enrolled in correspondence art classes trying to learn to draw
jadM TIL That a US destroyer attempted to ram and became stuck on top of a German u-boat during WWII. Resulting in exchanges of small arms fire that claimed the lives of 35 members of the u-boats crew.
xVQyB TIL dyes leech off your clothing!
69ERw TIL that the numbering system in India has different words for the powers of ten starting with ten to the fifth, and names every other power from there (seventh, ninth, etc.)
Xl58 TIL the Great Famine of Ireland caused so many deaths, that Ireland’s population still has not recovered (even after 150 years)