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TIL Piracy off Somalia’s coast has created a sanctuary from commercial fishing efforts and has become, “one of the world’s richest sources of the fish, experts say”.

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wjD7 TIL the United States Army has not had a 5 Star General since Sept 22 1950.
RB6j [TIL] As lemon juice is used to make invisible ink, a man tried to rob a bank thinking he was invisible by putting lemon juice on his face.
VB0D0 TIL in the US less than half of murders are solved.
0d87R TIL of the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing "automaton" from the 1700s actually operated by a cleverly hidden human. It toured the palaces of Europe, even playing against Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon, who attempted to cheat multiple times, prompting the Turk to swipe all the pieces off the board.
yK1e TIL While parachuting, an American aviator downed a Japanese fighter plane by shooting the pilot in the head with his sidearm.