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TIL that France was still executing people by guillotine when Pac Man was introduced

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J184 TIL that a man who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination as a young boy lived long enough to be on a game show in 1956
DQDBe TIL that, despite being an English noble family, the Howard family has never accepted the Anglican faith and still remains in communion with Rome. Two of its members are considered martyrs.
QbAa TIL that one in ten people in Iceland will publish a book in lifetime. The island nation has “more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else int he world.”
OGjdg TIL that the days of the week are named after Germanic gods, which in turn are Germanic interpretations of the Roman gods.
BrOMy TIL from the 1860s to the 1928, in some jurisdictions of the Southern United States, prisoners were leased to private businesses