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TIL that after her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson took to piracy and formed the "Black Fleet" - ships painted in black with red sails that would attack French warships.

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JYWXB TIL Ginggaew Lorsoungnern, a Thai convict executed by firing squad, was discovered to have a rare condition called Situs Inversus (internal organs reversed) after she was shot in the left side of her chest and survived. After waking up in the morgue she was taken back and executed.
ADKNa TIL: Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language and establish it as its national tongue.
NvPN TIL Bing Crosby used to whip his children for being overweight, and two of them committed suicide
ploZ TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.
vrNB TIL that in Hong Kong, architects often design buildings with holes in them to allow dragons to pass through unobstructed on their journey to the ocean.