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TIL that in 2012 pirates mistook a Spanish warship for a cargo ship and attempted to board it.

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XZ6E TIL in 1995, Robert Metcalfe predicted that the Internet would collapse in 1996 and that he would “eat his words” if it did not. In 1997, he blended a printed copy of his speech with liquid and drank the mixture.
v1Der TIL about Beena, "a form of marriage used in pre-Islamic Arabia in which a wife would own a tent of her own, within which she retained complete independence from her husband".
jNk4a TIL of Operation Underworld. During WWII the U.S. government worked with Mafia families to secure the country's northeastern ports. They provided protection against spies and saboteurs, avoided wartime labor union strikes, and limited theft by black-marketeers of vital war supplies and equipment.
XE5yk TIL that the drummer who schooled Kevin in The Office was discovered in a YouTube video titled “This drummer is at the wrong gig”
yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.