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TIL that slavery was still practised in South Korean salt farms as recently as 2014.

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kJBEW TIL that Sam Faubus, the father of infamous Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, privately disapproved of his sons actions during the Little Rock Crisis, going so far as to write letters in support of desegregation to the Arkansas Gazette.
X0DgD TIL the state of Louisiana is named after King Louis XIV of France.
ZpMKD TIL the Toraja people of Indonesia perform "Ma'nene", an annual ritual where the embalmed corpses of family members are removed from their tombs, groomed, dressed in new clothing, and treated as though they are still among the living. Torajans refer to the deceased as "sick", and only bury years on.
nWnjG TIL a series of US explosion tests by was performed in 1965 near Hawaii using 450t of explosives. 92,022 blocks of TNT were stacked in domes to simulate the shock effects of nuclear blasts without the radiation.
5VwVP TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was given his name because, during his mother's pregnancy, she was observing a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio first kicked.