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TIL In 2002, 15 young girls were prevented from escaping a burning school because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.

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5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull
b600 TIL there was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
8aMN4 TIL: The element Thorium has a half-life of 14 billion years, which is the age of the universe.
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