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TIL pure water does not conduct electricity and is an excellent electrical insulator.

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14QX TIL that Wonder Woman’s creator was no comics artist – he was a Harvard psychologist inspired by a superwoman in his own life
xWGw TIL in 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were stranded on a Pacific Island after a shipwreck and eventually perished. Before his own death, Matsuyama threw a message in a bottle into the ocean. Over 150 years later the bottle washed ashore in the same town Matsuyama was born.
awynb TIL Canada and the US share a number of "pene-exclaves" which are parts of a country that that can only be conveniently reached through the territory of another, such as Point Roberts, WASH and the Northwest Angle, MINN
x655b TIL that Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was actually the first film George Lucas had directed since the first Star Wars in 1977
lOK7 TIL that in 2003 the Russian government sent a special forces death squad to kill a human rights activist in retaliation for her filing a complaint in the European Court of Human Rights