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TIL the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope was held for ransom while being shipped to Hawaii. The US Coast Guard retook the telescope under a writ of 'piracy on the high seas'.

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9ELm TIL Some women in 19th century India were charged a size based “Breast Tax”, and the defiant actions of a single woman helped abolish the oppressive law
4ZWw TIL of the Mast Brothers who repackaged regular chocolate bars and sold them as artisanal chocolate for $10
dDyo9 TIL that Michael Flatley is not Irish; he is American
Eg6Ww TIL the movements typically associated with Parkinson's Disease are actually a side effect of the medication Levodopa prescribed to increase dopamine and not PD itself; these movements are called dyskinesia, whereas PD causes stiffness, slowness and tremor
78JZO TIL that a woman in the UK, despite having 3 A-levels and 10 GCSEs, killed herself after being rejected for more than 200 jobs