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TIL flotsam, jetsam, lagan & derelict all have very specific legal meanings under the law of the admiralty and marine salvage

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BgGGe TIL that Robert Wadlow, the tallest person ever known was born in 1918 and grew to a height of 8 feet 11.1 inches due to a rare condition. He relied on leg braces to walk and died at 22 from an infection.
QOO9 TIL there used to be an island called “Slut’s Bush” off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The island sank under the ocean by the 1800s.
E1QMo TIL the Norse did scientific observations in America, measuring the hours of the day at Winter Solstice at 9 hrs. This matches Mount Hope Bay, Massachusetts, according to historian Carl Rafn.
w5gY TIL: No one knows what to do with a Quran Saddam Hussein had written in his own blood, which is a sin, since destroying it is also a sin.
a8PmN TIL Napoleon had planned an invasion of the UK but it was never carried out. Preparations were financed by the sale of the Louisiana territory to the US which the US financed with a loan from a British bank, so Britain was indirectly funding an invasion of itself.