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TIL of Seafarer Abandonment. Sailors and the ship they're on can be completely abandoned by their employers in a foreign port, with no wages, way home, fuel or even food or water. Sometimes they can even be detained by the country they're abandoned in.

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6EO5Q TIL in the early 1800s, tourists visiting Plymouth Rock were provided a hammer so that they could take a piece of the rock as a souvenir. By 1880, what was left of the rock was fenced off.
Lk8Ev TIL That, in 1986, former senator Al D'Amato once filibustered a bill by reading the District of Columbia phonebook.
evk6 TIL the the name ‘Hotmail’ was chosen as a homage to 'HTML’.
yQn8p TIL the House of Representatives is surrounded by 23 marble relief portraits of famous historical lawgivers, including Napoleon, Jefferson, Moses, Lycurgus, Solon, Gaius and Hammurabi.
o9J8 TIL that only 5% of all the slaves from the Atlantic Slave Trade came to the USA. Most went to S. America and the Caribbean.