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TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age of consent and that Clerics have fought efforts to create one. A judge refused to annul a marriage between an 8 year old girl and a 47 year old man.

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oBJrA TIL Peppers change their name when they are dried. For example, a Chipotle is a smoked and dried jalapeño
P1M5e TIL that writer Sylvia Plath, her son Nicholas Hughes and her husband's mistress all died by suicide
Kpe4 TIL there’s a mental illness called Cotard Delusion in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are already dead, putrefying or don’t exist.
oBwQr TIL that "Five-O" being slang for "police" was inspired by the TV show "Hawaii Five-0" (and not the other way around). "Hawaii Five-0" was named that in honor of Hawaii being the 50th state to join the United States
PYZGG TIL that the Huanghuagang Martyr Memorial in China has a replica of the US Statute of Liberty on top. It replaced a previous Statue of Liberty that held a rifle, symbolizing Mao's quote that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”