80 People Reveal Shocking and Unbelievable Secrets About Their Countries You Never Knew
In France, two regions (Alsace , moselle) are not exactly laïc and church and state are not fully separated. I grew up with mandatory Christian studies in public school between ages 5 to 10 . we have more public holidays than the rest of France and our social security is also a bit better.
We have a lot of specificities due to the fact that those region have been German for a long time
honestly, even French people barely know that.
In Finland we have a brand of bread called Jussi Pussi.
Do what you will with this information.
Mississippi was the last state in the USA to ratify the 13th Amendment, which is the amendment that abolished slavery.
This occurred in 2013.
While, sure, Mississippi certainly has its history of slavery, this was more of a bookkeeping issue. In the USA, as long as three-fourths of the total number of states ratifies an amendment to the US constitution, it becomes a law for everyone. Even though Mississippi voted against the 13th Amendment, enough states voted for it. Now it is federal law. At that point, a state ratifying the amendment is more of a box checking exercise rather than having any real impact.
In the mid 90s someone realized that, hey, Mississippi still hadn’t voted for it. The state legislature came together, voted unanimously to “end slavery”, but the paperwork didn’t get submitted…and no one noticed until it was finally dealt with properly in 2013.
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