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TIL: 31 US States allow parents to give their kids alcohol

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vMNr TIL film composer John Williams is the second most Academy Award nominated person in history with 49 nominations, right after Walt Disney
deDQ TIL that in the early medieval Catholic Church, priests accused of pedophilia would be publicly beaten, have their heads shaven, and then be bound in chains and imprisoned.
neMVb TIL the name Yosemite was given by the white men who thought it was the name of the natives they were trying to drive out of the area. It was later learned that the natives actually called themselves the Ahwahneechees and the word “Yosemite” meant “They are killers.”
6EW5Z TIL on October 6th, 1909, a new ambulance in Vancouver was sent out on it's first test drive and immediately hit and killed a pedestrian.