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TIL There is a non-profit that operates boats that pick women up in their country where abortions are illegal then sails out to international waters (where Dutch laws are in effect on the ship) to perform the medical abortions

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LQDm0 TIL That a Panopticon is a specifically designed jail that allows all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.
eZ4L TIL in ancient Athens they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people would vote on the politician they thought was becoming too powerful and was in a position to establish a tyranny. The “winner” was then exiled from Athens for 10 years.
9wZ9m TIL: Rupaul owns 60,000 acres in Wyoming that he leases to oil companies for fracking
yWrp TIL that there’s an American city 2.4 miles away from Russia
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.