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TIL that collective punishments is a war crime, as stated in the Hague Regulations and the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions.

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xALb TIL of the “heath pea”, an abundant Scottish plant that, when eaten, effectively stops the sensations of both hunger and thirst for days
ADkMw TIL that a professor asked his students to either flip a coin 200 times and record the results or give the fake results of 200 coin tosses. The students were amazed at how the professor easily identified the real results by seeing if they had six heads or tails in a row.
9krm TIL in a variation of the 1963 Milgram Experiment, with a live puppy and real shocks, only half of the male participants went up to the full shock level, but all of the females did.
nWoo TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps.
eOeE TIL: It took 300 years for the Giant Tortoise to get a Latin species designation because they where so delicious that no one survived the voyage back to Europe without being eaten by the humans transporting them.