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TIL part of the Pirate Code was that musicians must play on demand of the crew, except on Sundays.

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7jEZ TIL that during the first four days of World War II pet-owners in London queued up at animal shelters to put down their dogs and cats. More than 400,000 animals died. There was no government order to do so; nor was there any economic need.
7rWOL TIL South Korea, in 1980, built a 322 foot tall flag pole overlooking the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Korea. In response, North Korea built a 525 foot tall flag pole opposite South Korea’s flagpole.
9wxb7 TIL that gun manufactures lobbied for legal immunity from lawsuits, successfully passing the "PLCAA" in 2005
PGLL TIL that in all figs we eat, there is a corpse of a fig-wasp inside that has deposited it’s eggs inside the fig meanwhile pollinating it. The wasp never leaves the fig again and dies inside.
yQP4w TIL: that Voyager 1 is travelling so fast that it would take just over 5 minutes to travel from London to New York