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TIL that Celtic languages were once widely spoken across much of western and central Europe. These languages/cultures slowly succumbed to Roman and Germanic expansion, and today Celtic languages are reduced to Ireland, the UK, and Northwest France.

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m1L8Y TIL in 1916, 17yr old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder in Waco. A lynch mob took him from the court and proceeded to cut off his fingers and genitals, they then burnt him to death slowly whilst the hung him by his neck, lowering and raising him in the fire to prolong his suffering.
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