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TIL that Saudi Arabia still occasionally sentences people to crucifixion, most recently in March 2013.

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begE TIL Canada also interred it’s Japanese citizens during WWII
wR4E TIL: J.R.R. Tolkien began writing a sequel to “The Lord of the Rings” called “The New Shadow”, however he abandoned the new book as it was too sinister and depressing being set during the age of men.
QJRmM TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954
QkVa TIL That the MPAA threatened to bump ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’ from PG-13 to R if they showed the two male leads kissing.
NRXb TIL that the man on NASA’s CAPCOM that said, “Challenger, go at throttle up” just before it exploded was the pilot on the very next shuttle mission.