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TIL In 1880, Sunandha Kumariratana, the queen of Thailand, drowned helplessly While Her Subjects Watched Because They Were Forbidden to Touch Her

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e0Kn4 TIL that in ancient Rome, commoners would evacuate entire cities in acts of revolt called "Secessions of the Plebeians", leaving the elite in the cities to fend for themselves
OGLlX TIL IN 2018 homicides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada exceeded that of New York City
KYGEB TIL about Dan Rather, a journalist, saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in 1961. He created the first radar weather report, which helped initiate the evacuation of 350,000 people.
wo5Lo TIL That until Sept 25, 2017, sign stealing in baseball was typically un-enforced. After the Yankees were caught in 2016, and Red Sox in 2018 an investigation was conducted and only the Astros were penalized because they were found to have done it after the Sept 25th memo.
8aBOb TIL there are over 1 million penguins who live in the Falkland Island minefields because they're too light to set off the mines