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TIL Prostitution is legal in India but associated activities like pimping and owning a brothel is not.

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M7KZK TIL the first time aircraft carriers were used was in WWI. First deployed Mid-January 1915 the HMS Ark Royal served in the Gallipoli campaign and throughout WWI. She carried 8 seaplanes that would conduct reconnaissance missions.
ANO04 TIL The NES Zapper Gun worked by turning the screen black and placing a white box around the target. The gun had a light sensor which detected the light from the white box. If it detected light, you hit the target.
D14WP TIL that when Sean Connery dated Julie Hamilton, she originally wasn't attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen in her life.
a8GLo TIL John Wilkes Booth thought it was God's will that he assassinate Abraham Lincoln. He also believed slavery was God's greatest blessing to the nation, since he believed he viewed slavery the same way as the original framers of the constitution.
EgVY0 TIL of Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) who was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.