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dD54Q TIL that there are large (>200 m length) tanker ships that are built and operated solely to transport orange juice.
p8E5b TIL in a study of 1,000s, the score for "dark triad" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) was subtracted from "light triad" (Kantianism, Faith in Humanity, Humanism) to an avg. balance of 1.3, suggesting the avg. human tends to the light more than the dark.
JYZGv TIL there was a paramilitary socialist group in Canada in the 1960s that wanted to overthrow their provincial government with an armed revolution. The only peace time use of Canada's War Measures Act was to stop them. The group was in contact with the KGB, and the top members were exiled to Cuba.
wYoo TIL astronauts can’t cry in space.
W7Vno TIL about William Knibb an abolitionist Jamaican missionary who held a funeral for slavery with the words:"The Monster is dead!"