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TIL up until 1981 Swiss children were sent to prisons for social rehabilitation, abused, raped, beaten and taken away from parents to work on farm at the ages of 4-6. They were called Contract kids

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a8AG0 TIL that well into the 18th century, many mapmakers held the persistent belief that California was an island. This eventually prompted in 1747 the following royal decree from King Ferdinand VI of Spain: “California is not an island.”
PY6kO TIL:In 1974 artist Marina Abramović displayed her performance art "Rhythm 0"-Where she stayed still for 6 hours and let guests do what ever they wanted to her with 72 items she had placed on a table. One of the items were a loaded gun. The guests started out gentle but got worse after couple of hrs.
jNBEM TIL that Massachusetts once banned Christmas for 22 years because people celebrated too hard--drinking too much, partying in the streets, and breaking into houses
BggeL TIL the Yakuza protected Koreans after they were targeted by Japanese police and lynch mobs in the 1923 Kanto Massacre
d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.