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TIL for severe crimes such as mutiny, the Royal navy used to punish men with “flogging round the fleet”. The criminal would be ferried from ship to ship, and whipped by the crew of every ship at port

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wLnw1 TIL that bassist Carol Kaye recorded over 10,000 sessions in her 50 year span as a musician, including recording for artists Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Phil Spector, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Andy Williams, The Lettermen, Tina Turner, Herb Alpert, The Supremes, and The Monkees.
97VM TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics
OGQ7R TIL Conjoined twins Lupita and Carmen Andrade are connected at the torso and share a pelvis and reproductive system. When Carmen wishes to spend more time with her boyfriend, she lets her sister choose where they are going and the activity they are doing
8ZnP TIL the reason dogs bark at the mailman is because dogs learn quickly that their barking often makes the intruder go away. This is the case when your dog barks at the mailman. He thinks he is doing his job of protecting his home because when he barks the intruder leaves immediately, every time.
KLXa TIL That the prototypes for the first Stealth fighter were produced in the late 1970’s and cost just $35 million for the entire program. The aircraft, called “HAVE BLUE”, were designed by just a handful of engineers, and put together using left over parts from other more widely known aircraft.