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TIL that the finance minister of Latvia is also Woman Grandmaster of chess, the second highest-ranking chess title that exists for women

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v7OK TIL in Japan almost half of young Japanese (18 to 34) are virgins
6kkm TIL prior to the Treason Act of 1790, the punishment for a woman convicted of treason was to be burned at the stake. To show mercy, the executioner was equipped with a cord passed around the victim’s throat, which he would then pull tight, strangling her before the flames could reach her.
olD7 TIL that “The Case of the Stolen Smell” - an innkeeper accused a poor student of “stealing his smell” by eating while the innkeeper was cooking to “flavor” his dull food. The judge ordered the student to pay the innkeeper with the sound of money by passing it from one hand to another.
x6vRB TIL the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.
JXwl TIL: That while the Russian Tsar Bomb is the largest nuclear device ever detonated, it was the ‘cleanest’ nuclear bomb ever detonated. It’s modifications removed 97% of it’s fallout.