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TIL that the United States has not ratified the Rome Statute, that makes Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of Aggression international crimes.

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NXJpb TIL about the American Fenian Brotherhood. During the 1860s they attempted several 'invasions' of Canada in order to trade it to the British for Irish Independence
MeK7b TIL That Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin concluded the first that stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 thesis, but added that her results were "spurious" because of the consensus at that time. She was eventually proved right by other researchers, yet is almost never credited.
W7e1B TIL that when the Nazis threatened to execute Archbishop of Greece Damaskinos for speaking against the deportations of the Greek Jews he replied: "According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our leaders are hanged, not shot. Please respect our traditions."
VM5VD TIL Your computer's RAM has to constantly remind itself of the data it's holding due to capacitor leakage. This is the main reason why it's slower for the CPU to use compared to on-die memory circuits.