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TIL Albert Einstein Was An Early Opponent of Racial Segregation, And Had Many Close Friendships With African American Civil Rights Icons

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OoZL4 TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.
Wk7V8 TIL A historical study from Korea found that male eunuchs in the royal court had a centenarian rate of over 3%, and that eunuchs lived on average 14 to 19 years longer than uncastrated men
Q4r6 TIL the most recent beheading for sorcery in Saudi Arabia was in 2012.
l79p5 TIL that in 2007 BBC journalist Alan Yentob was caught out for having clips of himself nodding inserted into interviews on a TV show he fronted to make it appear that he had conducted them instead of other journalists
vVl8 TIL Samsung just launched the largest ship in the world. It is 12 times larger than the Titanic.