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TIL that a false surrender is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention.

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YRAZ TIL; Israel supported apartheid regime of South Africa, defying international sanctions, to acquire uranium for the sake of producing its nuclear arsenal.
xgD TIL Uganda Is Reviving The “Kill the Gays” Bill From 2009
nWe5d TIL Drunk surfing is illegal in Iowa.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
7o7M TIL Michael Jordan’s dad, James Jordan was murdered by a man wearing a Michael Jordan t-shirt.