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TIL Notorious English pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) once attacked a ship off the coast of Honduras just to replace his crew’s hats (they had drunkenly lost them the night before)

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YEwx TIL that an estimated 10-20% of the entire population of Mauritania is enslaved. It only became a crime in 2007.
wLYyE TIL the electric ray was used to numb the pain of childbirth by the ancient Greeks. Its ability to stun people without moving or using poison was held as evidence of the supernatural existing in nature.
ANJ67 TIL the 1927 Liberian general election saw Charles D.B. King win with 229,527 votes. The country had less than 15,000 registered voters at the time.
dDAQ TIL there is a mountain in Canada called “Unnecessary Mountain”.
E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.