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TIL that while Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962, Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan publicly endorse the practice in 2003, stating “Slavery is a part of Islam” and whoever wants it abolished is “an infidel.”

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ney7B TIL One of Leonard Nimoy's first screen appearances was as a Martian invader in Zombies of the Stratosphere.
6MNY TIL CostCo sells a pallet of food for a family of four to live off of for 1 year.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.
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