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TIL instead of having captured Somali pirates stand trial, Russia has begun releasing them. They place them in an inflatable boat back in the ocean from whence they came, without navigational equipment. Effectively condemning them to death.

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a5jJ TIL That Beyonce once shut down a hospital floor to give birth, forcing patients and family members out such as a dad coming to see his 2 prematurely born kids
gr5EW TIL - In 1853, Elizabeth Jones built a 7,690sq-ft mansion (dubbed Wyndcliffe) in affluent Rhinebeck, NY, overlooking the Hudson River. The unusually impressive house prompted wealthy neighbors to expand & remodel their own homes, to "keep up with the Joneses” - giving birth to the common saying.
wLM96 TIL that people who study ancient writing are called Palaeographers
j6eLX TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.
VMLa8 TIL that there is a court in England that convenes so rarely, the last time it convened it had to rule on whether it still existed