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TIL of the Disappointment Islands in French Polynesia, so named by a British explorer in 1765 because of hostile natives, they are arid and lacking in water, and nowadays most of the islands are uninhabited

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xwXb TIL that the extra years on sentencing beyond death (e.g. “life without parole plus 1,000 years”) is both a symbolic way for a judge to condemn someone as truly guilty and console a victim, as well as a practical way to make it more difficult for someone to get out prison
yaPv TIL that allowing her flight attendants to wear bikinis to work has made an airline CEO in Vietnam that country’s first female billionaire
Br1xk TIL James Earl Ray, MLK’s assassin, was accidentally honored in a Florida plaque supposed to be celebrating James Earl Jones during an MLK Day event. Officials received their plaque and were horrified to discover that it bore an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for “keeping the dream alive”.
yVkev TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
dYlZ TIL Johnny Carson declared that Chevy Chase ‘couldn’t ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner’ after being told that Chase could replace him as host of the Tonight Show