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TIL one transatlantic flight emits more CO2 than an entire Formula 1 racing season

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6Rgm TIL A 15 year old boy was locked up for a year on false rape charges, and the girl received no punishment when she admitted lying a year later.
epVg6 TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws.
X0VMk TIL that Waving with your palm open is considered an insult in Greece. This gesture is called Moutza and it might get a local going loco if you wave at him/her that way.
epV64 TIL That, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the AR-15, and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, met near Washington DC and developed a friendship that lasted until Stoner's death seven years later.
ne1bG TIL in the 1960s the US had developed a nuclear bomb small enough to be carried by one person, such as a paratrooper, and placed at an enemy target such as bridge, dam, etc.