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TIL that the European Union suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales

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e0x8k TIL that Arkansas rushed to execute 8 prisoners in 10 days due to a batch of lethal injection drugs that were expiring.
bQ67 TIL “The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.”
69rrY TIL the German submarine U-864 was sunk along the Norwegian coast in 1945 with 67 tons of mercury on board. The wreck has contaminated nearby cod, cusk and crab, and there are plans to entomb the remains in sand and concrete.
1aYOd TIL the watch made its migration from the pocket to the wrist during World War I, when soldiers were obligated to attach them to their arms for coordinated attacks, instead of fumbling in their pockets. Before then, the "bracelet watch" had mostly been regarded as a joke and "silly-ass fad".
py84 TIL Scooby-Doo was a triplet who had five brothers total and one sister. His sister is the mother of his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.