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TIL During the WW2 Battle Of The Atlantic, the British Merchant Navy had a higher casualty rate in proportion to the armed forces, and their wages were halted as soon as their vessel was hit by a torpedo.

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7E9P TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was almost put to death for sodomy. When no witnesses came forward, his case was dismissed.
M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
lwWV TIL that coyotes and badgers often hunt together
pdoN TIL Peace Arch International Park was designed so that people from Canada and America can get together without the need for passports
PPpE TIL that 6 weeks before Mubarak’s fall about 77% of Egyptians supported hand amputation as punishment for theft, 82% supported stoning to death for adultery, and 84% supported the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam