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TIL Richard Stockton, ancestor of OceanGate’s Ex-CEO Stockton Rush, was the only Declaration of Independence signer to renounce the American Revolution

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d8N4j TIL about the 18th century folk song Maggie May. A prostitute in Liverpool who robs sailors after spending the night with them, Maggie is eventually caught and sent to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. It's possible the song's story is of a real woman, Nellie Ray, a prostitute and thief.
ZeVG TIL Indonesians must supply 5 seedlings at their wedding or 25 at their divorce to combat deforestation.
a8nQ0 TIL Manatees control they buoyancy with their farts. They have specially evolved bowel pouches that let them selectively release their flatulence when they want to float up or down.
dQnd TIL of Abu, an elderly Indonesian man who lives alone on a deserted island with his wife so he wouldn’t spread his leprosy to others; he makes a living out of raising turtles and taking care of the reef around the island.
rR090 TIL the German armed forces have the concept “inner guidance”, which obliges every citizen-soldier to think for themselves. Soldiers may disobey orders against their conscience and it officially traditionalizes the actions of the July-plot conspirators, like Claus von Stauffenberg.