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TIL There is an International Seabed Authority and it is based in Kingston, Jamaica

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j6wZp TIL of Annie Besant who was a British woman that was elected as president of the Indian National Congress, in late 1917
P1xV TIL there is a family that lives on Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty.
VLkm TIL that 1 in 3 people who suffer from migraines experience a perceptual disturbance 10 to 20 minutes prior to the migraine. This is referred to as a migraine aura.
YprgZ TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.
YGOd TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”