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TiL that the US Gov. has put an 82yr old Nun in prison for terrorism. Her crime: cutting a bunch of fences at a nuclear facility, erecting peace signs and singing “Down by the Riverside”.

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wJW8 TIL Ancient Greeks built a 7 mile wall from Athens to the port of Piraeus to guarantee safe passage to the sea
PYJkn TIL a 1970 episode of Hawaii Five-O featured a hanging method copied by a viewer of the show who died trying the technique. Their family sued CBS and the episode has never been rebroadcast and was excluded from DVD releases
xPvD TIL that an ambulance was stationed outside a screening of The Human Centipede 2 as a joke, until a woman became so physically ill after viewing the film that actual paramedics were needed
Brpry TIL the creator of "Charging Bull" on Wall Street meant for it to be a symbol of optimism after the stock market crashes in 1980. Placing the "Fearless Girl" in front of the bull changed the latter's meaning.
b644Q TIL that according to the Cleveland Clinic if you want to remember the correct rate of compressions while performing CPR on an unconscious person, you can follow the beats of songs such as Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" or "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira - i.e. 100 to 120 times per minute.