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TIL: According to the ICRC, taking and killing hostages is a war crime.

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neeGG According to satellite observations, it occurs more often over land than over the oceans. And lightning seems to happen more often closer to the equator.
m1VWo TIL The ingredients of the modern image of La Catrina were drawn together as recently as 1910 by the Mexican illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada.
0wBBj TIL: America's most iconic snack company - responsible for the Oreo, Vanilla Wafer, Fig Newton, and others - is the result of a merger in 1898 of the major biscuit producers of the time to form the "National Biscuit Company", or better known as "NaBisCo".
grYyy TIL Inuvik, a Canadian Arctic town, transformed an old hockey arena into the world’s most northerly commercial greenhouse. Powered by 24-hour summer sunlight, locals grow fresh produce in 88 raised plots.
9wP7B TIL that in Argentina, where the Parana river forms its delta, there is a perfect shaped circular island (with a diameter of 120 meters), which can float freely around its axis, thus changing frequently its position