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TIL The British Navy uses Britney Spears’ songs to scare off Somali pirates. Her songs were chosen as the pirates hate Western music.

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x6kr5 TIL about Gary DeVore, a screenwriter, who disappeared in 1997 while night driving from Santa Fe, NM to Santa Barbara, CA. A year after disappearing, Devore and his Ford Explorer were found in an aqueduct in Palmdale, CA. Devore's hands, script and gun were missing. His death remains a mystery.
yQNLw TIL there is a political party in Quebec that supports leaving Canada and becoming America's 51st state.
XE5pP TIL A study showed that not only kids, but even adults sleep better while being gently rocked. Participants of the study fell asleep faster, slept more deeply and woke up less in beds that rocked them throughout the night.
0Q41 TIL in the aftermath of the Iranian Embassy Siege in London an SAS trooper tried to take the only surviving gunman, Fowzi Nejad, back into the building to shoot him, but changed his mind when he realised the raid was being broadcast on live television.
VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.