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TIL on 1956, to fight school integration, Mississippi repealed its compulsory attendance law

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69YP7 TIL Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.
awpyZ TIL The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) has 282 laws enscribed on stone. It includes the concept of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" - more than 500 years before the Torah.
NZGb TIL that Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church once worked as a bouncer in an Argentinean bar
R7rM9 TIL there's no automation in measuring snowfall - the US National Weather Service has thousands of volunteers with rulers
ro80 TIL that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope originated in the late 1800s, when discarded banana peels were considered a serious public hazard