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TIL the Golden Age of Piracy, between 1650s & 1730s happened because of: more valuable cargo being shipped over vast ocean areas; reduced European navies; & corrupt officials in overseas colonies.

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N7JaQ TIL Futurama's gag about French being an undecipherable dead language was replaced with German being the dead language in the French dubs.
LNJv TIL that a serial killer from the ‘70’s, in the midst of his spree got on to “The Dating Game” and won, dispite the fact he was already a registered sex offender. The bachelorette refused to go on a date with him, she found him “Creepy.”
78onM TIL in 1967, gay rights activist John Nichols appeared in an NBC documentary called The Homosexuals. He used the pseudonym "Warren Atkins". His father was an FBI agent and feared he would lose his security clearance if they found out his son was gay, to the point of threatening to kill him.
0dn0j TIL a couple who found a winning lottery ticket for £30,000 on the floor of a Co-op store & cashed it in was ordered to pay the original owner of the ticket half of the prize money and were each given an 11-month suspended sentence for fraud. The couple had already spent half of it to pay down debt.
XEJdr TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."