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TIL Sorcery is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia

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e0x8k TIL that Arkansas rushed to execute 8 prisoners in 10 days due to a batch of lethal injection drugs that were expiring.
4LQo TIL that if the successor to the Crown in Britain converts to Catholicism ,they are legally deemed to have died.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye
o0Or TIL the company who made Clash of Clans is worth more than Evernote, Eventbrite and Buzzfeed combined, and generated $2.3 billion in revenue in 2015.
nWVj9 TIL Montecristo cigars are named after the classic novel because cigar rollers at the time were read to for entertainment whilst working and ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ was a favourite among the staff.