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TIL Alabama did not repel it's ban on interracial marriage untill 2000

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5Y76Q TIL that 7-year-old Julie Ann Crumpling was sent to jail in 1870 for ‘stealing’ a pram to play dollies. She was Oxford Jail’s youngest prisoner, sentenced to hard labour for 7 days. The judge wanted to send her away for THREE months.
RX1j TIL when General Napier was asked to respect the Indian custom of burning widows on their husband’s funeral pyre, he replied it was English custom to hang murderers.
5vZQ TIL that in 1981 a cult incorporated a city in Oregon. The city, Rajneeshpuram, quickly grew until the commune became increasingly aggressive and eventually its leaders were charged with a variety of crimes
0m91 TIL Lincoln created the Thanksgiving Holiday in 1863 during the Civil War to keep the country together.
Xerj TIL That in 2009 scientists brought an extinct species back to life through cloning. The clone lived for seven minutes before dying of a lung defect.