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TIL it is illegal for a US citizen to participate in boycott against Israel,we even have a government office tasked with ensuring that no boycotts of Israel are created ,the US Office of Antiboycott Compliance

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LQQWZ TIL that Stede Bonnet (of "Our Flag Means Death" fame) was an actual person who worked with Blackbeard.
PXKe TIL Firefighters are less likely to die on the job than the average U.S. worker.
R7gQQ TIL that the International Space Station ran on a 20MHz Intel 80386SX CPU from 1988 & was upgraded in August with a commercial off-the-shelf computer. The station orbits Earth & sees a sunrise once every 92 minutes. Soon after the upgrade, it will have a computer that can keep up.
8ak0a TIL that JRR Tolkien did not like the title The Return of the King as he felt it revealed too much of the story. He preferred The War of the Ring.
4XWyg TIL Mao Zedong was personally struck by the loss of his own son, Mao Anqing, during the Korean war, a war he had effectively started. North Korea and China commemorated each’s support in their struggle against the United States and there is a Chinese soldiers cemetary north of Pyongyang