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TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada

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GAxpg TIL that William Calcraft, the notorious English hangman, carried out around 450 executions. To hasten death, he would sometimes pull on the condemned person's legs or even climb on their shoulders in an attempt to break their necks. Calcraft conducted the last public execution in 1868.
0wGp TIL Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Qur'an five times more often than Muhammad
ZpWXB TIL about Texarkana, two different towns on the border of Texas and Arkansas with the same name. They operate similar to one, despite two state laws. Their courthouse is also the only one in the USA to sit on a state border.
0wGYL TIL Chinese CS:GO cheaters have their "Sesame Credit" score lowered as punishment which hamper their ability to borrow money in the future
dDaeK TIL that the Pythagorean theorem must have been known before Pythagoras, because it is used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet dated about 12 centuries before the birth of Pythagoras.