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TIL The Geneva Convention allows belligerents to take patients of hospital ships as prisoners of war, but not the staff

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JYe4k TIL you’d weigh the same on Mercury as you would on Mars. Due to the much higher density of Mercury, the smaller planet has almost identical surface gravity as Mars.
Oo0mL TIL dogs actually like when their owners use silly high-pitched voices to talk to them
7yKM TIL that Gerald Ford is the only person to have served as both Vice President and the President of the United States without being elected to either office.
d8QQ8 TIL - Not only is the kidnap and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena still active he may have been betrayed by a DEA agent in his own office but also a CIA agent who has been named was there at his interrogation and murder.
KJgG TIL in the early 1900s, 6-day long bicycle races were quite popular. The winner would be whoever rode the greatest distance in the 6days. They would get extremely little sleep and hallucinate on the track.