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TIL 1800's Whaling Sailors had a cannibal protocol called "the custom of the sea" for dire incidents.

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jN10j TIL in South Korea, anyone caught leaving anonymous comment on a blog with more than 100,000 readers can receive a five-year prison term. All comments must use a real name.
0451 TIL that since 2013, a YouTube view is counted as a sale of a song, in the sense that it is counted toward the certification of a song as Gold (500k copies), Platinum (1M copies), or Diamond (10M copies)
xVRJB TIL that landfills create enough heat that they can be used as a geothermal heat source
v1RAj TIL Sarah Winchester, widow of the founder the Winchester Company, built a confusing mansion to ward off the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. At its zenith the house consisted of over 200 rooms, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, 2,000 doors, several trapdoors, and multiple spy holes.
ep0k4 TIL Ted Turner was expelled from Brown University for having a female student in his dorm room.