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TIL that “Here Be Dragons” is the “Beam Me Up Scotty” / “Play It Again, Sam” of cartography. The phrase doesn’t actually appear on any old maps.

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m15ep TIL after 20-year-old US Marine Lori Padilla killed Rojita Kinjo and her young daughters Mitsuko and Mariko while speeding in Okinawa, Japan, a court ruled that Padilla should pay the victims' family 62 million yen, but as she had already left Japan, the amount was paid by the US and Japan
LkOxm TIL The hourglass is only 700 years old, and came into use at almost exactly the same time as the first mechanical clocks.
QgR6 TIL The age of consent in the Vatican is 12 years old
grdlA TIL of Markus Wolf, the head of the East German foreign intelligence division. He was the Stasi’s number two man for 34 years and yet the West didn’t know what he looked like until 1978.