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TIL Ghana has six witch camps, housing about 1000 women. The camps exist so that women accused of witchcraft can have a safe place to live without fear of being killed by their neighbours.

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d85y7 TIL of a Welsh village Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch named as a publicity stunt in 1869 to give the railway station the longest name in Britain. It means: St Marys Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave.
neMmY TIL that there are more people who speak the English as a second language than native English-speakers around the world
PYkeO TIL The inaugural winner of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, William Grover-Williams, was a French secret agent responsible for organizing a resistance network who was executed by the Nazis.
wL7G6 TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued people who downloaded their torrents. The matter reached the FBI and the pirate site accepted to collaborate with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
W7g1L TIL about Martha Mansfield, a silent film star who died at 24 in 1923 on the set of 'The Warrens of Virginia.' Her Civil War-era costume caught fire after someone threw a used match into the car she was sitting in. The match-thrower has never been identified.