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TIL The Catholic Church believed the first people to use Arabic Numerals were practicing magic and sentenced them to life in prison

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4Xjxw TIL about the Turks of South Carolina, a community that traces its lineage back to Joseph Benenhaley, or Yusef Ben Ali, an Ottoman Turk refugee who fought in the American Revolutionary War, and whose members were discriminated against as "second-class citizens" in the segregated South.
x9dB TIL there’s a real life Russian ghost ship floating around in the Atlantic ocean named the Lyubov Orlova
rN15W TIL that the last woman to be executed by burning at the stake in England was not killed for witchcraft, but for counterfeiting coins, seen as a crime against the king, and therefore treason. Her husband was hanged for the same offence, and the women’s sentence was changed to hanging the year after.
4jON TIL that the Powerpuff Girls were originally called the “Whoopass Girls” by their creator who did the pilot as a college project. The “secret ingredient” in their creation was accidentally spilling a can of Whoopass into the pot.
4kDAJ TIL smoking a lot of weed can result in cycles of nausea and vomiting. It’s called Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) and people suffering from it says hot showers help their symptoms.