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TIL Since 2014, owning a dog in Iran is illegal. If caught owning a dog, violators are subject to 74 lashes

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E1eWw TIL that J.K. Rowling confused the layout of King’s Cross with that of London Euston Station when writing Harry Potter, and that Platforms 9 and 10 are actually two train lines next to each other, with no separating platform.
VM78k TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of applicants with perfect SAT scores. The percentage of students who took the SAT and got a perfect SAT score is less than 1%.
GVdj TIL the US convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war during WW2 and sentenced them to death
oZa7 TIL that despite later becoming an icon of the south, the confederate flag was never the national flag of the Confederate States of America
XE6rj TIL about The Epic If Gilgamesh. The oldest surviving work of literature in existence dating back over 4,000 years. It features a demigod hunting for immortality and an account of a great flood very simular to the biblical one.