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TIL Men who are sentenced to stoning in Iran are buried up to their waists, women up to their chests. If a person can escape, the sentence is terminated.

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KY0wG TIL: In the Canadian province of Quebec, people who died during the winter must be cremated or interred by 15 May.
1aOmX TIL that the first pocket calculator [Curta (Type I) mechanical calculator] was invented by the Jewish inventor Curt Herzstark in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. The Nazis planned to make a present of it to Hitler as a gift after the successful end of the war.
Z8wp TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. considered himself a Trekkie, convinced Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to stay on the show, and that he told her that “Star Trek” was “the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.”
nbQ9 TIL Mr. Roger’s middle name was “McFeely”
R7AA9 TIL a Dolphin had sexual relations with its trainer, given LSD, then it committed suicide as part of a NASA experiment.