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TIL a small region and hundred-thousands of people in the European Union were subject to ancient Ottoman laws and penal code till 2018

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Z8LZR TIL Along with blondes, redheads are the most likely to gray (or, in reality, white) early on, since their hair already lacks the pigment. Caucasians also develop gray hairs earlier than other races, while Asians are the second and African Americans are the third
dKBE TIL that a blue whale’s blood vessels are wide enough for a human to swim through.
mQGP TIL the total cost for U.S. nuclear weapons from 1940 to 1998 was $5.5 trillion. The US public debt in 1998 was $5.3 trillion.
VMmaQ TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he and his friend Paul Allen would hack the scheduling system so that Gates was the only boy in classes full of girls.
J1gwB TIL Mannheim Steamroller was unable to find any record label to release their unusual work, so their founder Chip Davis created his own label, American Grammaphone, based in Omaha, NE. They have sold more than 30 Million albums.