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TIL if any crimes occur at the McMurdo station in Antarctica, the US attorney in the district of Hawaii handles the case

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XEZDE TIL that 20 African countries are building a green wall across the continent to stop the spreading of Sahara Desert
XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.
R7r6 TIL in 1914, a 19yo British boy was court martialed for desertion. He was undefended and called no witnesses, as all of his comrades had been killed in action. He was hastily sentenced, and on September 8th became the first WWI soldier to be executed for desertion. He was finally pardoned in 2006.
ne8xr TIL of the Winsor Hum, a mysterious, low-pitched noise that has plagued residents of Windsor, ON since 2011. No one fully knows its origin.
16GM7 TIL one bite of the beaked sea snake that is fully loaded has the ability to kill 52 men and only three drops of their toxic venom have the ability to kill eight people! Without treatment, the venom will kill a person within eight hours.