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TIL flying kicks were invented to knock samurai off of horseback.

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awnYy TIL a Chinese man was almost cremated alive after being beaten by police and left for dead… the cremation process was stopped when a medical woker noticed he was still breathing. He was then taken to a hospital where he was beaten again by the police and arrested.
P0lJ TIL - There is a performance artist whose art includes eating human flesh in public places and is living proof that England does not have an anti-cannibalism statute. He has, however, been arrested for making earrings out of human fetuses.
dDlxQ TIL cigarette smoking in the US went from <5% in 1900 compared to 42% in 1965
y1jV TIL an online gamer mortgaged his irl home to purchase a virtual property in the Entropia Universe for $100,000. He later sold the same property called “Club Neverdie” for roughly $635,000.00.
KrXE TIL that Saudi Arabia’s religious police have an “Anti-Witchcraft Unit” who operate a hotline to which citizens can report magic.