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TIL British Admiral Horatio Nelson, commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the Mediterranean in 1804, then the largest naval force in existence suffered from seasickness ever since he joined the navy at the age of 12.

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gMYZ7 TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression
BOxW TIL of UCSC grad student Jim Kent who wrote a program to allow the Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the genome. The research was largely motivated by concerns that Celera Genomics, working on a parallel project, would patent the data. Kent’s results were released first by 3 days.
5yJP TIL iranian artist Atena Farghadani was imprisoned for critizing an anti birth-control law in a cartoon - then additionally charged with ‘illegitimate sexual relationship short of adultery’ for shaking her lawyers hand.
DQBMV TIL that scientists discover an average of 18,000 new species of life every year.
16MP TIL Americans can find out if the government is holding money for them from wills, trusts, banks, lawsuits, taxes and so on. I learned this as my buddy found out his grandmother left him $65,000.00 in her will. He’s having a good night.