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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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MoGb TIL The town of Lauderhill, Florida was supposed to present actor James Earl Jones with a plaque for their annual Martin Luther King celebration. The company in charge of making it printed the name “James Earl Ray” on it. James Earl Ray was the man who killed Martin Luther King.
K4Q6 TIL colonists in Jamestown resorted to eating a 14 year old girl during a particularly harsh winter known as the “Starving Time.”
P1pbG TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.
rNApy TIL playdoh was originally a wall cleaner folks used to get fire grime off their walls.
4Rpa TIL in 1902, the Greek symbol Caduceus (two snakes on a winged pole) was mistakenly used as the emblem for the US Medical Corps instead of the Rod of Asclepius (one snake climbing a pole), the true Greek symbol for medicine. Despite this error, the US still widely uses it to represent healthcare.