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TIL that South Africa has a "Witchcraft Suppression Act" that is still in force

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WZOX TIL that after he was accused of witchcraft, Giles Corey was subjected to “pressing.” He was stripped naked and weight was added to a heavy plank on his chest to force him to plead innocent or guilty. Each time he was asked to make his plea, he said “more weight” and was eventually crushed to death.
b9QG9 TIL In 1947 2,400 tons of the material responsible for the Beirut explosion(ammonium nitrate) exploded in Texas resulting in 500 people dead and a 15ft tidal wave.
xVQK5 TIL historically, pleats (folds in a chef's hat) represented how many recipes a chef knew. A chef with 100 pleats may know 100 different ways to boil an egg or prepare a chicken.
aROA TIL German soldiers in American POW camps dramatically burned their German uniforms after being shown films of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
PZVw TIL in 2010 during a heat wave Siberian bears began to dig up cemetaries and eat the corpses of humans