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TIL that The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island to make a country with no copyright laws

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kJA01 TIL-No one was ever burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials instead, the accused were hung or pressed to death.
XEJ8X TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
NXmx6 TIL about the Sea Peoples, a group of tribes that invaded Ancient Egypt around 1200 BCE and might have had a decisive influence on bringing the Late Bronze Age to an end. However, scholars are not sure who the Sea Peoples were, or where they lived.
VMklk TIL the Molotov Cocktail was not invented by Russians, but instead by under-supplied Finns who used them as improvised anti-tank weapons against the USSR in the Winter War. The famous Finnish alcoholic beverage company ALKO actually switched to mass producing Molotov Cocktails during the war.
4kOJ TIL that left handed persons are significantly more likely to suffer from autism and schizorphrenia while at the same time being much more likely to have an IQ over 131 and being more proficient at math than their right handed counterparts.