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TIL A company in India illegally dumping waste in the Mumbai River in India were cought when the waste was turning local stray dogs blue

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Nnb1 TIL When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920’s, Winston Churchill said; “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).
ovgr TIL Louis CK asked Donald Rumsfeld, directly, if he was a lizard. Multiple times over the course of 15 minutes. Rumsfeld wouldn’t answer him.
xYLB TIL that a Spanish woman claimed ownership of the Sun in 2010, using a loophole in the Space Treaty of 1967. Spanish courts validated her claim and she proceeded to charge companies that use solar energy. In 2015 she sued ebay after her account was blocked for selling plots of land on the Sun.
aOGo TIL the three mile limit for international waters was created as this was the maximum distance a cannon ball could travel from the shore.
LkOmP TIL after journalist Paulette Cooper wrote an article criticizing the Church of Scientology, they tried to get her committed to a psychiatric ward by writing her name and number on street walls, subscribing her to pornographic mail lists, and faking bomb threats with her stationary and fingerprints.