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w7L6 TIL in 2001 woman stabbed her partner, skinned him and then tried to feed him to his children
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
V8DG TIL Researchers at MIT studied phantom traffic jams (jams that arise in the absence of any obstacles) and found they are inevitable at a certain vehicle density threshold. The waves of traffic are named Jamitons, and are similar to the equations that describe detonation waves produced by explosions.
dPld TIL in 2006 actor David Cross became Kickstarter’s first investor.
PjYJ TIL that on average, Congress randomly brings up Hitler 7.7 times a month