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TIL: Any dolphins or whales that are caught within 3 miles of the UK are considered the personal property of Queen Elizabeth

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1agLP TIL James Longstreet, one of the most skilled confederate generals in the civil war, later felt so guilty that he became a civil rights advocate and led a militia of black soldiers. Today he is remembered as a traitor in the South
XEdYE TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."
8naa TIL That in 1941, Willamette University’s football team played a game at the University of Hawaii on December 6th for the post season. The following day, December 7th, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The team was conscripted into the Army to help fight a possible Japanese invasion of the island.
YpW4Z TIL the Marshallese used map charts made of sticks to navigate the Marshall Islands in canoe. They displayed the major ocean swell patterns and how the islands disrupted them. The charts are only interpretable by their makers who would memorize them before their voyages. They were used up until WW2.
eOj5 TIL that self-injury works to reduce emotional pain because of a phenomenon called pain offset relief. “This may be because the physical pain relief that follows a self-injury event basically tricks the brain into perceiving relief of emotional pain too!”