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TIL last year the Star Princess, a Princess cruises ship passed by 3 men drifting in a small boat with no motor in the open sea. The captain confirmed he saw the men through his telescope and then did nothing to help. The boat was later found by the Ecuadorean coast guard with only one survivor.

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dDQOd TIL that the Isles of Scilly (UK) and the Netherlands were allegedly in a state of war between 1651 and 1986, after the declaration by a Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral whose ships had been a victim of the Royalist fleet. No peace treaty was signed for 335 years, during which not a single shot was fired.
Wk86L TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned
Bn9r TIL that Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS spokesman in the 80s, was expelled from middle school after contracting HIV from an infected blood transfusion. 117 parents and 50 teachers campaigned for his ban, after being told that the students would catch HIV if they were in the same class as he was.
Zpyjo TIL that for six generations, from 1688 to 1840, members of the Sanson family were the executioners in Paris. Charles-Henri Sanson performed 2,918 executions, including that of Louis XVI, and his son Henri executed Marie-Antoinette.
R5Lw4 TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.