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N7G0e TIL of fatal insomnia, a cruel disease that leads to months of sleepless nights, terrible exhaustion and eventual death. There is no known cure.
16eA8 TIL some leather products, especially small items like belts, gloves, purses and shoes, can be from dog or cat skin. Distinguishing dog and cat leather from cow, pig, or sheep is difficult without DNA testing, which makes it easy for manufacturers to pass dog/cat leather off as typical leather.
1andr TIL of Seafarer Abandonment. Sailors and the ship they're on can be completely abandoned by their employers in a foreign port, with no wages, way home, fuel or even food or water. Sometimes they can even be detained by the country they're abandoned in.
X0LjX TIL That the senate of American Samoa is elected by and from the "Matai" the chiefly nobility of the territory, making it the only place within the United States or it's territories that maintains a titled system of aristocracy with special rights unavailable to others.
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.