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TIL Swedes have a national weekly eating plan. Thursdays are traditionally pancakes and split pea soup.

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7rlwb TIL there was a practice called Posthumous Execution where a dead body was mutilated as punishment. It was performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Eg. Vlad the Impaler was beheaded following his assassination, Rasputin was exhumed from the ground and burned with gasoline.
LkdlP TIL the alpaca was selectively bred from the vicuna to accentuate its naturally finer wool. Alpacas were a central part of Incan culture but were almost exterminated to make room for European domestic animals. The highland inhabitants saved the species by moving their herds to higher elevation.
aweKL TIL Despite the Supreme Court declaring such laws unconstitutional in 1967, Alabama did not remove a clause in its state constitution prohibiting interracial marriage until 2000
W7dld TIL that nuclear bomb survivors in Japan (Hibakusha) were extremely societally discriminated against when searching a spouse or a job, due to the public considering them contagious or “damaged”.
R50M7 TIL (after breaking both clippers and some weak scissors) that you're supposed to clip nails and toenails after a bath, when they are softer.