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TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French

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KoXE TIL in 1972 a mail worker in spain was given a sentence of 384,912 years in prison for failure to deliver the mail.
xVrxg TIL that as recently as 2003 homosexual relationships were illegal in 14 states; until the Supreme Court struck down these laws.
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5YLXP TIL that as of the 2011 census, 44.1% of British Columbia identifies as irreligious.
ddNj TIL of Henry Moseley, who rearranged the Periodic Table based on atomic mass and died aged only 27 in WW1. Isaac Asimov said of his death, ‘in view of what he might still have accomplished … his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally’.