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e0mnk TIL one of this site’s co-founders committed suicide in 2013 after facing up to 50 years in prison for illegally downloading over 4 million academic articles. He was 26 years old.
NXXe1 TIL that the last battle of the thirty years war was fought at Prague where the war started thirty years earlier during the bohemian revolt. Swedish forces took parts of the city including Prague castle and looted it for months before being repelled by bohemian forces.
gr8LD TIL the longest sea crossing in the world is a bridge-tunnel system connecting Macau and Hong Kong. It is 34 miles long, roughly twice the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which is where the idea came from.
7rmbL TIL Pakistan was actually two countries, with 'East' and 'West' Pakistan. East Pakistan was over 1300 miles away and subsequently became the country of Bangledesh in 1971.
DQwRD TIL that singer Lenny Kravitz was named after his uncle, a soldier in the U.S. Army who posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.