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TIL Some Russian yachts offer “pirate hunting” cruises off Somali coast where yacht owners provide AK-47’s for a chance to kill pirates.

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jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
78bVr TIL The fossilised remains of a T rex and a Triceratops who died fighting eachother, discovered in 2006, remained in private hands and thus unavailable for study unti 2024, partially because of land dispute over whether fossils are minerals or not. A court in Montanta ruled that fossils are minerals
yQAlV TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.
LQxGd TIL that the Nemi ships, built in the 1st century AD during the reign of Roman emperor Caligula, were destroyed by fire during WW2.
Yr4v TIL That beekeeping in Ukraine is a major economic activity. 700,000 people, 1.5% of the Ukrainian population, are engaged in producing honey.