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TIL The Vagabonds Act (1547) stated "if anyone refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to the person who has denounced him as an idler." The owner could then force the new slave to do any work "no matter how vile." If the slave escaped three times, you could execute them.

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ePMD TIL that the plans for turning Russia into a parliamentary democracy were completed one day before Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. He was supposed to present these to the Russian people in the next 48 hours. The first action of his more conservative son was to tear up those plans.
yVJQM TIL that a NFL Running Back called 'Karim Abdul-Jabbar' was sued in 1997 by the NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for using his name to which he later changed to 'Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar' due to the lawsuit.
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