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TIL China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission

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5Q6Q TIL The man who assassinated the founder of the American Nazi Party was sentenced to the least amount of years possible for murder, and was paroled after 4 years served after the presiding judge wrote a letter of support, the only time he did so in his entire career.
9YyL6 TIL That the inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, did not created it with the intention of measuring intelligence. Instead, his intention was to classify the "mental age" of kids and indetify the ones that weren't developing themselves well in school and sort of "rescue" them
1av74 TIL That all of McDonalds’ delivery trucks in the UK, have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007.
j6k1j TIL that apartheid South Africa designated East Asians as “honorary whites”, granting them the same rights and privileges as white South Africans
b6eX0 TIL In his last will and testament (25 March 1616), William Shakespeare left his second-best bed to his wife, Anne Hathaway.