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TIL that the remote, barren Norfolk Island was intended to be used as a penal colony for a penal colony; a place to send prisoners who had been transported to Australia and then committed serious crimes while there.

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JjDj TIL that Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag has attracted criticism from PETA for it’s whaling mechanic. In response Ubisoft stated that they did not condone “illegal whaling” any more than they condoned “a pirate lifestyle.”
9oO6 TIL that in 1890, few years before establishing the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel wrote “On the day when two armies will be able to annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror and disband their forces”
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