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TIL casting away a ship carries the death sentence penalty

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E15ed TIL of the old jewish cemetery in prague. Dating back to 1478, it has gotten full so many times and they just kept adding layers. Now there are 12 layers of graves stacked on top of each other. There are about 12,000 visible tombstones but over 100,000 people buried there.
5Y1Q8 TIL about how British forces burned the city of Cork in Ireland in 1920 as an act of retribution in the Irish War of Independence
8aGL8 TIL about the Tenerife Airport Disaster when, on a day in which there was fog heavy enough to reduce visibility to less than 500 yards, two Boeing 747s had a head-on collision at the runway that resulted in 583 casualties and the deadliest accident in aviation history.
OGkg TIL the shortest scheduled commercial flight has a total flight time of 2 minutes and is used by children to fly to school
NlXe TIL of “I am Rich”, a $999.99 app which did nothing except state that you are rich. It was bought by eight people before being taken down by Apple.