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TIL Italy and the EU border coastal and border guard agency, Frontex, illegally funded and assisted the Libyan coast guard to capture Libyans fleeing for refuge.

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DNLV TIL that IBM leased punchcard machines for high fees to the Nazis that allowed them to catalog and identify the Jewish population via censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing
kJ0k4 TIL In many jurisdictions in the US, you cannot finalize a divorce while pregnant, and if you have a baby within 10 months of a divorce, it's assumed by law that your ex-husband is the father of the baby.
9YKX6 TIL 165 victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima sought refuge in Nagasaki where they were bombed again 3 days later.
Een7 TIL Steve jobs tricked HP’s Carly Fiorina into allowing iTunes to becoming the prominent music player on PC’s while effectively banning her own music player until 2006.
QJwGa TIL that France produces 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. Highly radioactive nuclear waste from its production amounts to 10g/year/person. For a person living a 100 years, this amounts to a cube with a side length of 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) - roughly 2/3 the size of a standard Rubick's Cube.