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TIL that 50 grams of botox is enough to kill the entire human race

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D1E6Y TIL - Battle of Machias was an early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War a small town militia captured an armed sloop and two merchant ships. Two years later the British tried it again with 1,000 men but were beaten off.
8P5V TIL there are 550,000 miles of flexible undersea cables that carry the world’s data. Both USA and UK government agencies tap directly into it
pOme TIL in 1986 The U.S. was condemned by the World Court for using Violence and Terrorism against civilians in Nicaragua.
OGxO4 TIL: Rachel Wall was the last woman to be hanged in MA in the 1700s. She tricked sailors by screaming for help, when people came to help, her crew would kill them and steal their goods. She was later arrested for trying to rip a girl's tongue out and theft. She requested to be tried as a pirate.
5V1dD TIL that Ken Allen aka "Hairy Houdini" escaped from his enclosures à la prison break multiple times; inciting his friends-orangutans to follow his lead. No surveillance, no undercover mission to try to catch him in the act, succeeded to fool Ken.