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TIL coffee was so important in Turkish culture that under 15th-century law, a woman had the freedom to divorce her husband if he did not provide her with enough coffee

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16ROW TIL That 4 months before the Rwandan genocide happened General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces warned the UN that a genocide could happen but they ignored him
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
XNkE TIL the former leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, had the campaign slogan, “Do not expect any change from me.”
epmW5 TIL Emperor Justinian II (685-695 and 705-711) was overthrown in a rebellion and had his nose cut off to prevent him from ever ruling again. However, he managed to return to power in 705 with a prosthetic gold nose and took his revenge on those who had deposed him.
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