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TIL 200 Indian women stormed into the court and lynched a serial rapist. 5 women were arrested but released when every women in the local slum claimed responsibility for the murder

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awvgM TIL that the longest ship ever built, the Seawise Giant, is longer than the Empire State Building is tall. The ship could reach up to 20 mph and it took 5.5 miles to stop from that speed and the ship had a 2 mile turning circle.
KeKG TIL that mooning is legal in Maryland. After a neighbor dispute ended in one of the parties dropping his drawers, a judge ruled that while ‘disgusting’ the moon did not break the law.
RRjj TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”
KOkDa TIL Boulevards of the Marshals: a collection of thoroughfares that encircle the city of Paris, each named after a marshal in Napoleon army.
PnKE TIL an ancient Chinese dye, used on the Terra Cotta Army, has unique characteristics that might lead to breakthroughs in Quantum Physics