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TIL: Coastal species are using plastic trash as rafts to spread across the oceans

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PPpE TIL that 6 weeks before Mubarak’s fall about 77% of Egyptians supported hand amputation as punishment for theft, 82% supported stoning to death for adultery, and 84% supported the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam
lPEK TIL a woman was stabbed in a Kansas convenience store, and as she lay dying, 5 people physically stepped over her dying body, with one even stopping to take a picture.
b6nME TIL That in Iceland, Elves (called Huldufólk) are such an important part of Icelandic folklore, that several building projects have been altered in order to not disturb their homes.
m10VY TIL about Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 fighter that had to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice. The plane became buried under more than 200 feet of solid ice, but was recovered 50 years later and restored to flying condition.
xaOo TIL in the scene in Inglorious Bastards where Dianne Kruger is being strangled it was actually Quentin Tarantino choking her out because he thinks that fake strangling never looks real in movies.