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TIL that the world’s most successful pirate was a Chinese woman named Ching Shih. Estimated there were 80,000 pirates under her command, ~1,000 large junks (Traditional Chinese ships) and ~800 smaller junks

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xV18B TIL that Donald Trump destroyed several sculptures after telling the Met he would save them, while using a alias John Baron, who was Trump in disguise.
e0nZk TIL that Phillip J. Fry wasn't named in honor of Phil Hartman after all like Billy West once said, but after Matt Groening's father, Homer Phillip Groening. One in his children is also called Phillip.
ADJXx TIL a Danish company modified a version of thale cress (plant), that changes from green to red when being near landmines, because of the nitrogen dioxide gas released from landmines. This way you can detect landmines and save lives.
rRY74 TIL that Compton has its own cricket club and the team is the only all American-born exhibition cricket team.
WEML TIL that in 1871, Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill into law that gave him the right to suspend habeas corpus in order to combat the Ku Klux Klan.