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TIL that in Turkey (Türkiye), there's a lèse-majesté law passed in 1951 that sends someone to prison for up to 5 years for insults against Ataturk.

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Zpg6a TIL of the dog suicide bridge in Scotland. Reportedly dozens have either fallen, or jumped to their deaths since the 1950's.
W7OB4 TIL that there is no hurricane that has ever crossed the equator
neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?
b8dZ TIL forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940s, and that the US has more trees now than at any time in the past 100 years.
m1vKP TIL Foot binding, the practice of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size, was still prevalent in China until the early 20th century.