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TIL about Hague Invasion Act, passed in 2002 giving president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".

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1a1Vr TIL that the founder of Guinness World Records was assassinated by the IRA after offering £50,000 for information on several bombing suspects.
0MQ5 TIL the modern handshake dates back to the 5th century BC in ancient Greece. It originated from swordsman greeting each other with their weapon hand free, showing no sign to fight.
OG6Ve TIL there was a meme in the early 2000s where a picture of an owl and the text "O RLY?" was used to mock or question the legitimacy of a statement.
N7x1 TIL During the production of Monsters Inc, it normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands. That’s 288 hours for every second of animation!
ROx6 TIL Shakuntala Devi aka “the Human Computer” was able to Multiply 2 13 digit #s, picked at random. She answered correctly, 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds