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TIL when somebody is executed by the state, the cause of death on their death certificate is listed as homicide

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9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
8wQP TIL: Wikileaks leaked Manning’s identity, which is how “ex-hacker” Lamo, found him and ultimately turned him in
KYdJG TIL Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during the pandemic
9j0Q TIL, the longest cable in the world is the SEA-ME-WE-3, which runs from Western Europe, through the Middle East and finally to South East Asia and it provides communication to 33 countries. It’s 39,000 km long.
b9BA4 TIL there is a battery of unknown composition still supplying power after 176 years.