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TIL The Silk Road was often used for slave trade

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epxKE TIL a South Korean mayor had a ton of trash dumped on a pristine beach in southwest Jindo for International Coastal Cleanup Day so that 600 volunteers could carry out cleaning activities. He later apologized and said the event was meant to raise awareness about the seriousness of coastal waste.
MmQm TIL in 2004 a Texas man was put to death for killing his family in an arson attack. The jailhouse snitch admitted he lied, and top scientists/investigators have not been able to find any reason to think the house fire was anything other than a freak accident.
rnp1 TIL that dropping a bomb from a balloon is, to this day, a violation of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, although there is no such prohibition for dropping a bomb from an aircraft
QVE9 TIL The TV show “The Jetsons” was created in the year 1962 and took place in the year 2062. Meaning we are living closer to when the Jetsons lived then when they were originally created.
m1d9y TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.