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TIL that fortune-telling is illegal in New York.

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GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
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LQYg0 TIL that in 1625, after an armed uprising in upper austria, the 36 suspected ringleaders were forced to roll dices in pairs and the loosers were hung. 18 were pardoned including 2 who lost the dice game.
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