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TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.

mxmLv TIL Elephants risk their lives to mine a cave in an extinct volcano in Kenya. The rock has 100 times more sodium than what they normally eat, as well as being rich in potassium and calcium. They dig with their tusks, grind it and swallow it. The bones of those who didn't make it line the trail.
gMwl8 TIL The NES game 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' included a real phone number that players could call and hear a recording of Jessica Rabbit offering hints. The phone line was discontinued by 1990 and reassigned to a sex hotline some time before 2010. The original recording has since been lost.
0dPNA TIL: UN Secretary General Waldheim told the UN Security Council that the 1976 Entebbe raid that rescued 100+ hostages was "a serious violation of the sovereignty of a Member State of the United Nations"
jNGJR TIL about the "Herbivore Men" of Japan, men who have basically given up on marriage and love. They often can’t afford it, and they don’t want to work to death to raise a family, instead they have hobbies or anime or the internet to fill up their time.
7rPOP TIL That the highest recorded blood alcohol content ever recorded was a polish man who had a BAC of 1.48. He got in a car crash but likely survived due to his drunkenness but later died due to the injuries of the crash