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TIL actress Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her highschool graduating class.

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mgRY TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”
v1p1R TIL of Alexis Carrel, a surgeon who pioneered vascular sutures after other doctors claimed the French president Sadi Carnot could not have been saved after being assassinated with a knife
R7j9w TIL in 2019 Zimbabwe spent £118,000 on 64 judges' wigs from a London based company
VBg9Z TIL that yet another Christmas tradition, the burning of the Yule log for good luck, predates European Christianity and has its roots in paganism. Yule log burning is rooted in Germanic or Scandinavian paganism and associated with winter solstice rituals
5Een TIL that Tomahawk missiles cost $1.59 million