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TIL Atheists cannot hold office or testify as a witness in Arkansas

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x6E4w TIL About Cape Malays in South Africa. The descendants of enslaved and free Muslims from different parts of the world, specifically Indonesia (known then as the Dutch East Indies) and other SE Asian countries, who lived at the Cape during Dutch and British rule. There are 176,000 remaining.
OoKR4 TIL Mew was to be an obtainable pokemon in red and blue but was scratched due the lack of cartridge space, which is one of the many reasons pokemon became so popular.
QNXmE TIL Drivotrainer was the first computerized driving simulator used for Driver's Ed in the 1960s
R7gLj TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it..
ld4V TIL The day after Thanksgiving is Native American Heritage Day, a day to pay tribute to Native Americans for their many contributions to the United States.