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TIL that carbon nanotubes were found in Damascus steel swords from the Seventeenth Century

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NX8xN TIL about college football player Erik Highsmith, who was accused of plagiarizing an 11-year-old when doing an assignment for Communications class.
8anG4 According to a report released by Hong Kong-based marine conservation group OceansAsia, approximately 1.56 billion face masks entered oceans in 2020.
eplmg TIL about Jerusalem Syndrome, where people with no previous history of psychopathology suddenly exhibit religiously-themed obsessive ideas, delusions, or other psychosis-like experiences after visiting Jerusalem.
x6MNw TIL the Royal Navy captured a Brazilian slave ship in 1827, renamed her after an old English folk song, (that also happened to be the name of an English slave ship in the 1700s), and assigned it to fight against the slave trade.
yQaaM TIL that homosexuality has been legal in France since the Napoleanic era.