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TIL in Russia, women cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment.

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bDjE TIL in 1803 a mysterious beautiful woman in a circular UFO-looking boat called a Utsuro-bune washed ashore on a remote Japanese fishing village. She spoke no Japanese and carried a box depicting strange symbols that nobody was allowed to touch.
yVL7M TIL A permanent move to daylight saving time would prevent 2,054 human injuries, 33 human deaths, and $1.19 billion in damages each year.
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
Z8E4R TIL British General Charles O'Hara had the unfortunate "distinction" of surrendering not only to George Washington at Yorktown, but Napoleon Bonaparte at Toulon as well.
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