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TIL Saudi Arabia once surgically paralyzed someone as punishment for a crime

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Ypbkr TIL that the Karen are an actual ethnic group of approximately 7.5 million Sino-Tibetan peoples. While the group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate, some of the Karen, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have been in a constant state of war since the 1940s.
7Plp TIL from about 950 to 1250 AD was known as the Medieval Warm Period which had temperatures of 1 °C warmer than today.
PYV0G TIL: In New York state, a hot dog is legally a sandwich
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