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TIL the British Royal Navy has been instructed not to detain pirates of certain nationalities because the punishments for piracy in their home countries would make the pirates eligible for British asylum under British human rights legislation.

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4dL5 TIL there is something called “the small penis rule” that authors use to avoid libel lawsuits: if a character is described as having a small penis, no one will want to sue and say the character is based on them.
Ko9a TIL the phrase to ‘blow a raspberry’ is derived from cockney rhyming slang in which you rhyme your desired word (fart) with another word that is used in a sensible phrase (raspberry tart), then use the non-rhyming word for the original word (raspberry=fart).
j6EmR TIL the Gettysburg address was only 271 words long, and the speech was not scheduled as the day's primary speech
NLB1 TIL both ancient Greek and Egyptian medicine recognized obesity as a medical disorder. Hippocrates wrote that “corpulence is not only a disease itself, but the harbinger of others”.
QgKa TIL Male bats perform oral sex on female bats (the only other species besides humans that have been observed doing this)