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TIL : A judge in India acquitted rapists in 1994 with a ruling that they were Brahmins and a Brahmin wouldn’t rape a Dailt.

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xv10 TIL When New Jersey’s Action Park sent crash-test dummies down its looping waterslide, the dummies were dismembered.
VMDEG TIL about Senator's Strom Thurmond's 24h 18min filibuster to delay and obstruct the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957
v1X5j TIL that the British museum has a Greek sling bullet dated from the 4th century which is inscribed with the word “DEXAI”, which translates to “CATCH”
ydBl TIL that dildos were invented over 25,000 years before the wheel
pYb TIL that one way to stop an incoming asteroid from hitting earth is to paint it white.