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TIL that the topic of the first ever radio communication on board an aircraft in flight, was a cat. In 1910, Kiddo the cat snuck on board an airship, and ended up travelling with the ship during its entire 71-hour journey. Kiddo was adopted by the daughter of one of the airmen.

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Lb8Q TIL Six major orgs. (American Psych. Association, Am. Academy of Peds., Am. Medical Association, Am. Acad. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Am. Acad. of Family Physicians, and Am. Psychiatric Association) recommend no electronic media at all for children via http://ift.tt/1AOMu4n
VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
9KRQ TIL that the British explorer James Cook was so well respected that during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote to all American colonial warships that; upon encounter, to give safe passage to his crew and vessel, and to consider them as ‘common friends to mankind’
v1W8r TIL In 1802, Napoleon added a Polish legion to fight off the slave rebellion in Haiti. However, the Polish army joined the Haitian slaves in the fight for independence. Haiti's first head of state called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded as a great honour.
Rag9 TIL over half of all gun related deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Roughly 40% are homicides.