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TIL of the Hague Invasion Act, that allows the US to use military force to free any US citizen held by the International Criminal Court

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MeOK0 TIL that cruise ships have morgues on board
ZnoR TIL that around half of all clinical trials by drug companies go unpublished. Which leads to overestimation of drug efficiency and an underestimation of dangers. And that a movement called AllTrials, which is supported by hundreds of organisations, has been fighting for all trials to be released.
Rp1 TIL under apartheid, Japanese people in South Africa were considered white, while Chinese people weren’t
R5gE8 TIL that the longest bridge in Europe is called the Vasco da Gama Bridge and is 12km or 7.6 miles long.
0wJnN TIL that during the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut David Scott carried out a version of the classic Galileo's hypothesis by dropping a feather and a steel hammer at the same time on the surface of the moon. The objects took the same amount of time falling and there by proving the hypothesis.