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TIL, that cougar's mating call sounds like murder of woman
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1KJD
TIL, The Harris Neck Occupation: When black protesters took over a wildlife refuge in 1979, they were removed in 3 days
VBEyB
TIL: the US State Department officially recommends that if you travel to Somalia, you first "Draft a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries", "Be sure to appoint one family member to serve as the point of contact with hostage-takers", "review the Live Piracy Report", etc.
VONp
TIL that 34% of all alcohol sold at liquor stores in the entire country of Estonia is bought by people from Finland. Also roughly 2% of the Finnish population visits Estonia up to 3 times a month to buy alcohol.
kJk84
TIL the origin of "sweatshop" was in the 19th century when new technology like sewing machines made mass production possible. "Sweating" was defined by the British parliament as "work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions"
v1oEK
TIL that during the 1962 missile crisis, the all-out nuclear war was prevented by a single man: Vasily Arkhipov