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TIL the Australian constitution technically allows for the disenfranchisement of voters based on race

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J1R8k TIL that the United Church of Canada has had an openly non-thiest priest on thier books since 2001; and an openly Atheist one since 2013
DQoYV TIL about the ancient Mesopotamian practice of using a substitute king to protect the real king from evil omens. The real king would go into hiding, and rites were performed to transfer the danger onto the substitute. At the end of the ritual, the substitute is put to death.
D1d7r TIL In 1975 Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo in the film Star Wars, but he refused the role because "The script was too confusing"
RabQ TIL that in Feb 1942, a ship capsized off the coast of newfoundland. One of the 46 survivors was being cared for by local women who were trying to wash what they thought was oil off his skin. The women had never seen a black man before and we’re actually trying to wash the color off his skin.
J1lRk TIL that Lithuanian book smugglers smuggled Lithuanian-language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuania, defying the Russian Empire's 1864 ban on such literature. The Russians were trying to "russify" Lithuanians by forcing them to use the Cyrillic alphabet, and finally gave up in 1904.