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TIL it was common in medieval England to sell your wife to another man since divorce was prohibitively expensive

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awLVJ TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.
b6RJ0 TIL that King Henry VIII was buried next to Jane Seymour; she was his third wife and the mother of his only son. His only son was King Edward VI, and King Edward VI died before having any children.
RBB1 TIL that Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo was initially released from custody because his semen type was different than his blood type (which is extremely rare).
9MX7 TIL an Ancient Roman punishment for the crime of parricide (the killing of a parent) was to severely scourge the criminal, sew them into a stout leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, then throw the bag into the river.
4XLZg TIL: 1 Gram of Antimatter costs approximately 62 trillion dollars.