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TIL Virgins in Iran are married/raped before being executed because the Koran forbids the killing of virgins.

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71vb TIL when black death (bubonic plague) spread across Europe in the 1300’s, 60% of Florence, Italy’s population died within just a few months.
4XjWw TIL that a box of negatives discovered by Dutch history buff Jo Teeuwisse at an Amsterdam flea market more than 10 years back led to a one-of-a-kind project where dramatic photo manipulations put WW2 American soldiers in the exact same spots — in modern-day.
w5ZJ TIL Mark Twain told an interviewer that he was not actually Mark Twain, but Mark Twain’s twin brother, but since his parents couldn’t tell which one drowned in the bath tub when they were babies, the parents decided that the one who lived must have been Mark.
WeE4 TIL that Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty, was raped at age 9 and 13, ran away from home, and gave birth at 14 to a son who died soon after.
JYNlQ TIL The 2020 US quarter featuring American Samoa features a fruit bat.