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TIL casting away a ship carries the death sentence penalty

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VLLp TIL of Disco Sally, a geriatric widowed grandmother who became a fixture of NYC’s legendary Studio 54.
Lkjk0 TIL That dogs were banned in Reykjavík, Iceland for 6 decades
gMQbL TIL After bragging to fellow insurgents about shooting down a Chinook with an RPG which killed 38 US and Afghan army personnel, US intelligence traced and tracked the individual before dropping four 500lb bombs on his truck and following up with attacks by a C-130 gunship and Apache helicopters
R7xQ8 TIL River and Joaquin Phoenix spent a significant portion of their childhood in a sex cult known as Children of God and later, The Family International.
X44R TIL the title for the movie “October Sky” is an anagram of the Homer Hickam book “Rocket Boys”