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TIL Rudyard Kipling's 1889 short story was the first to use 'the world's oldest profession' to describe prostitution.

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ObN4 TIL Tear Gas (and pepper spray) are illegal to use in warfare. Used on our own citizens in riot control, it cannot be used on enemy combatants.
nejWY TIL: Malaysia proposed that the UN Security Council set up an international tribunal to prosecute those deemed responsible for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines Flight. 298 People died over Ukraine when hit by a Russian Anti-Aircraft Rocket in 2014, the resolution was vetoed by Russia.
wdW6 TIL that an estimated ¼ of black swan pairings are male-male, stealing eggs and forming temporary threesomes to get eggs.
MMnm TIL that the world’s energy needs could be met by setting aside three percent of the world’s oceans for seaweed farming.
wo5wo TIL Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister, his grandmother was his mother, and his step-grandfather was his father