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TIL that Singapore has a mandatory capital punishment for drug dealers

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N77J TIL a Pakistani diplomat was denied an Ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia because his name in Arabic meant “Biggest Cock”
Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
R75k6 TIL that before the Han-Liu War, a 1932 battle between opposing warlords for the Shandong province, many of Liu's soldiers brought their own coffins to the battle because they expected to fight to the death.
Y7Ka7 TIL that in 2014 while in rehab, as well as in 2012, the singer Kesha asked her fans to send her human teeth to make art. In 2012 she told Bang Showbiz "I got, like, over 1000 human teeth," and said "I made it into a bra top, and a headdress, and earrings and necklaces."
xVmDo TIL that the longest time for a traffic jam occurred in August, 2010 and lasted for 12 days and was 62 miles (100 KM) long.