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TIL the United States travel advisory for Americans going to Somalia include: “have a designated family member for hostage negotiations” and "draft a will."

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6EjBW TIL upon turning 30, you were eligible to run for "Archon" in Ancient Greece which was the highest government office. Athenians also employed "ostracism" where they would vote to banish any politician for a period for 10 years.
xVy57 TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war is not actually a jellyfish, but a hydrozoan siphonophore. It's also not just one organism. It is made up of separate polyp organism colonies called zooids, each serving a specific purpose, like forming tentacles for locomotion or controlling digestion.
oBjVA TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.
YkM7 TIL that in an effort to demonstrate people’s lack of scientific literacy, water is referred to by an unfamiliar name, “dihydrogen monoxide”, followed by a listing of real effects of this chemical, in an attempt to convince people that it should be regulated, labeled as hazardous, or banned.
POWg TIL - There’s a guy who is trying to Gump it across all 50 states. He’d finished 31 states so far.