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TIL that in 2004, a 16 year old Iranian girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh was hanged for "adultery" after being assaulted multiple times

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PYmpV TIL of The World Islands located 2.5 miles off the coast of Dubai in the Persian Gulf. The 300 artificial islands range from 150,000 to 450,000 sq. ft. in area & consist of 321 million cubic metres of sand & 386 million tons of rock.
GYpGg TIL in 2014, a small Japanese village tried to set up a monument to remember the WW2 Korean slaves that died in the region, but were forced to stop by Japanese ultranationalists. These ultranationalists have also been successful in the removal of other monuments of contrition around Japan.
QYm6 TIL Ladybird Johnson donated money to have wildflowers along all of Texas Highways
v0Z4 TIL Plasma is actually the most common phase of matter in the universe. Despite being rare on Earth… the Sun, the stars, and most interstellar matter is plasma.
0woXy TIL of the Chinese Poet, Li Bai. Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, a good chunk of his poems are dedicated to alcohol and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride