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TIL that violent punishments in islam is basically a warning. Due to the long checklist to be guilty.

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lPxV TIL New Zealand is part of a 93% submerged continent known as Zealandia.
W7dKY TIL that there's a form of synesthesia where people transcribe the speech of others into text as imaginary subtitles
wodl1 TIL about Boustrophedon, a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
GAKV4 TIL Zachary Taylor's remains were exhumed in 1991 to see if he was poisoned and it was determined arsenic levels were too low
b9ly0 TIL thieves in Paris recently drilled through a limestone wall in the Catacombs into a high end apartment building wine cellar and made away with $300,000 worth of vintage wine.