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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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Rro9 TIL in Japanese myth there’s a creature called the Ashiaraiyashiki. It is a giant, unwashed foot that appears before you and demands to be washed. If you don’t wash it, it will rampage through your house.
40Gw TIL that when C-SPAN asked for illegal copies of Stephen Colbert’s controversial 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech to be removed from Youtube, Google bought the rights to the video and therey saved the viral videos which were already watched 2.7M times in under 48 hours.
GOO7 TIL in 1973 while performing a concert in San Francisco, Keith Moon, the drummer for ‘The Who’ passed out because of severe drug and alcohol intoxication and was rushed to the hospital. Shortly afterwards a fan named Scot Halpin went on stage and finished the show in Keiths place.
4XOG5 TIL the US and UK intentionally avoided the Geneva conventions to avoid accountability for the mistreatment of German POWs, instead designating them 'Disarmed Enemy Forces'. This lead to large, wired in enclosures with poor shelter and other necessities, and prohibited the Red Cross from intervening
WkkZ8 TIL 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' nearly wasn't called 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. In the year leading up to its publication, Orwell vocalised his indecision over what to call his novel before settling on 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. Orwell took a long look at the title 'The Last Man in Europe'.