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TIL Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps (fake streets, towns) so they can tell when someone copies them. They are called map traps.

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7rlwb TIL there was a practice called Posthumous Execution where a dead body was mutilated as punishment. It was performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Eg. Vlad the Impaler was beheaded following his assassination, Rasputin was exhumed from the ground and burned with gasoline.
DQo9r TIL the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy are the Dionne quintuplets born in 1934.
Bj8b TIL The rules of golf once provided that if your ball hit your opponent, he would lose the hole.
mxDAE TIL of the Hmong people, who communicate by whistling - the valleys of the Himalayas they live in make for ideal transmission, sometimes carried as far as 8km. They even perform whistling courtship ceremonies, and once in a relationship, lovers can make up their own ‘secret’ syllables!
8eGLK TIL Gambia is actually named "The Gambia" or the "Republic of The Gambia"