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TIL that New Yorkers have a bad history with quarantine, a mob burning the first quarantine hospital to the ground

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yVeyJ TIL Somali piracy emerged from an effort by local fisherman to fight against the often-illegal operations of foreign fishing vessels
7rKEM TIL Some Ancient Pacific Islanders explored the seas using their testicles as a navigational tool.
dD8dE TIL that in 2019, a man from Gujarat, India, bit a snake after the snake had bitten him. Both he and the snake died.
0kkN TIL that all of the six remaining William Shakespeare signatures have different spelling
9Yaom TIL, that first person to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation was actually a girl: Ada Lovelace. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.