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TIL South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers

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VMRYp TIL that flying a black Jolly Roger signaled piracy and offered your victim the option to surrender. Flying a red Jolly Roger signaled that no quarter would be given and your ship was about to be taken with no mercy.
R5dP8 TIL: About Philly Mignon, an album by jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones released in 1977.
R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.
AWKa TIL due to name confusion, staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
x666b TIL Babe Ruth starred in a film called "Babe Comes Home". It is now considered a lost film, meaning no known copies exist.