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TIL In 2004, 200 women in India, armed with vegetable knives , stormed into a courtroom and hacked to death a serial rapist whose trial was underway. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.

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9w7OD TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days
9YrZQ TIL Richard the Lionheart's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was actually a rare female crusader who would march with her husband. However, their disagreements on battle plans eventually lead to the marriage being annulled, where she then after married a Norman and produced Richard.
VMOQB TIL: The South Korean boy band "BTS" is responsible for 0.4% of South Korea's entire GDP. Making the band as valuable to South Korea's economy as multinational giants like Samsung and Hyundai.
woG1W TIL some American airports now allow non-ticketed passagers to pass through security
ANYMo TIL Honeybees use a waggle dance to tell others where to find food. The distance other bees must travel to the food source relates to the length of time it takes the bee to fly in one full circuit. The angle at which the bee flies in relation to the sun shows the direction of the food source.